Barton
WardCentral Canterbury. About 14,517 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 10 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 84% of people in Barton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barton at a rate of 151.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 107.5 per 1,000 people across Canterbury.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 185 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (762), anti-social behaviour (409) and other crime (247).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Canterbury
These figures are published for the whole of Canterbury, not for each ward, so they describe all of Canterbury and not Barton alone. See Canterbury
Barton in brief
Barton had 12,751 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Barton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barton, 81.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Barton, 3.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.