Collington, Cooden & Little Common

Rother · South East · population 10,539 · 7 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

72Area Score / 100 ?
  • #1,890 of 6,856 in England
  • #485 of 1,119 in South East
  • #1 of 11 in Rother
  • Less deprived (top 30%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents10,531
Median age (est.)62
Density528per km²
No qualifications19%
Degree or above31%
No car or van10%

Age

0–14 9%15–24 7%25–44 13%45–64 26%65+ 45%

Tenure

Own outright: 65%Mortgage/shared: 24%Social rent: 3%Private rent: 8%
Own outright 65%Mortgage/shared 24%Social rent 3%Private rent 8%

Households

One person: 29%Couple, no children: 18%Couple with children: 16%Lone parent: 5%Other: 31%
One person 29%Couple, no children 18%Couple with children 16%Lone parent 5%Other 31%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 20% · Managers & directors 17% · Associate professional 14%

All occupation groups
Professional20%
Managers & directors17%
Associate professional14%
Skilled trades11%
Administrative11%
Caring & leisure10%
Sales & customer service6%
Elementary6%
Process & plant5%

Ethnic group

White: 97%Asian: 1%Black: 0%Mixed: 2%Other: 0%
White 97%Asian 1%Black 0%Mixed 2%Other 0%

Religion & identity

Christian 57% · No religion 35% · Other 0%

Born outside the UK: 6%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Collington, Cooden & Little Common is in the less-deprived top third of England, ranked #1,890 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #1 of 11 in Rother. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Living environment (87) but weak on Housing & access (31). Typical homes here sold for about £460,000 over the past year, up 14% across five years (from 195 sales), 30% above the wider Rother median of £355,000. Typical household take-home income is around £40,501 a year, around the middle of England. Recorded crime ran at 40 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, well below the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 83 · #1,177
Employment 59 · #2,809
Education 58 · #2,863
Health 52 · #3,309
Crime 84 · #1,115
Housing & access 31 · #4,755
Living environment 87 · #917

House prices ?

£460,000median (12m) · +2.8% yr · n=195
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£460,000195+2.8%+14.4%
Detached£515,000141+6.2%+19.8%
Semi-detached£362,00017-6.2%+8.4%
Terraced£330,00015+2.3%+11.5%
Flat£230,00022+8.9%+21.1%
This area£460,000
Rother£355,000
South East£385,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£40,501±£5,890 · #3,274 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£42,183
Price-to-income ?11.4×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

39Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime ?

40 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 424 offences
Rother57
South East71
England83

Rank #1,272 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences204
Theft55
Burglary16
Vehicle crime23
Criminal damage & arson53
Public order & weapons44
Drugs16
Robbery1
Other12

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 100 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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