Ash Vale
WardWest Guildford. About 6,928 people in 3.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 4% of people in Ash Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ash Vale compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ash Vale safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ash Vale at a rate of 57.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.6 per 1,000 people across Guildford.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 37 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ash Vale.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (121), other crime (83) and anti-social behaviour (58).
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 Guildford
These figures are published for the whole of Guildford, not for each ward, so they describe all of Guildford and not Ash Vale alone. See Guildford
Ash Vale in brief
Ash Vale had 6,759 usual residents at the census.
About 4% of people in Ash Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ash Vale, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ash Vale, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.