Sheppey East
WardNorth east Swale. About 7,957 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 46 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Sheppey East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sheppey East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sheppey East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sheppey East at a rate of 153.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 97.7 per 1,000 people across Swale.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 103 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sheppey East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (638), other crime (180) and anti-social behaviour (148).
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 Swale
These figures are published for the whole of Swale, not for each ward, so they describe all of Swale and not Sheppey East alone. See Swale
Sheppey East in brief
Sheppey East had 8,354 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Sheppey East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sheppey East, 7.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Sheppey East, 6.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.