Alton
TownTown in East Hampshire, South East.
Alton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Alton add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Alton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Alton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Alton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Alton at a rate of 60.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 110 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Alton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (483), other crime (201) and anti-social behaviour (140).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Alton was 64.7 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Alton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Alton has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Alton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hampshire 002A | 1,562 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| East Hampshire 002B | 1,568 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| East Hampshire 002C | 1,547 | 151.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.3% |
| East Hampshire 002D | 1,928 | 53.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| East Hampshire 003A | 1,104 | 12.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| East Hampshire 003B | 1,161 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Hampshire 003C | 2,359 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.7% |
| East Hampshire 003D | 1,448 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.3% |
| East Hampshire 003F | 1,209 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| East Hampshire 003G | 1,740 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| East Hampshire 003H | 1,691 | 59.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.8% |
Your MP
- Damian HindsConservativeMP for East Hampshire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Alton1
Middle areas in Alton2
Towns near Alton6
Alton in brief
Alton is a town in East Hampshire, South East.
About 19,111 people lived in Alton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £380,000 in 2025 across 353 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 60.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Alton was £380,000 in 2025.
Alton had 17,883 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Alton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Alton, 92.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.