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Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns

Ward

South Buckinghamshire. About 17,541 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 15 square kilometres.

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Radon Affected Area by ward

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
17,172
408th most populated of 8,397
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
86.8%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
2.2%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns compares

Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.

Flackwell Heath & The WooburnsMiddle
Population49 wards, Buckinghamshire · 2021
Population: every ward in Buckinghamshire49 areas from 4,714 to 18,240. The middle area is 11,680. Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns is 17,172.
17,1725th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares49 wards, Buckinghamshire · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every ward in Buckinghamshire49 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 91.0%. Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage49 wards, Buckinghamshire · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every ward in Buckinghamshire49 areas from 27.8% to 97.7%. The middle area is 84.6%. Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns is 86.8%.
86.8%22nd highest
Claimant rate49 wards, Buckinghamshire · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every ward in Buckinghamshire49 areas from 1.1% to 7.6%. The middle area is 2.6%. Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns is 2.2%.
2.2%joint 18th lowest

Is Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns at a rate of 48.2 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 61.3 per 1,000 people across Buckinghamshire.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 69 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (302), other crime (173) and anti-social behaviour (99).

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 Buckinghamshire

These figures are published for the whole of Buckinghamshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of Buckinghamshire and not Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns alone. See Buckinghamshire

Average house price
£477,450
No change in a year
HM Land Registry · Aug 2026
Median full-time pay
£43,290
81st highest paid of 348
ONS earnings survey · 2025
House price to pay
11.0×
Joint 34th least affordable of 348
Worked out by Open Index
Deprivation score
11.9
47th least deprived of 296
MHCLG · England only
Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns in brief

Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns had 17,172 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns, 86.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.