Amersham
TownTown in Buckinghamshire, South East.
Amersham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Amersham 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 Amersham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Amersham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Amersham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Amersham at a rate of 45.2 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, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Amersham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (289), other crime (185) and anti-social behaviour (92).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Amersham was 46.7 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 Amersham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Amersham has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Amersham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckinghamshire 032A | 1,687 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.2% |
| Buckinghamshire 032B | 1,755 | 89.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 63.3% |
| Buckinghamshire 032C | 1,956 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.4% |
| Buckinghamshire 032D | 1,784 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 79.9% |
| Buckinghamshire 032E | 1,674 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Buckinghamshire 032F | 1,703 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.4% |
| Buckinghamshire 034A | 1,271 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Buckinghamshire 034B | 1,479 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.5% |
| Buckinghamshire 034C | 1,514 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 60.1% |
| Buckinghamshire 034D | 1,711 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 71.8% |
| Buckinghamshire 034E | 1,598 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Sarah GreenLiberal DemocratMP for Chesham and Amersham
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 Amersham2
Middle areas in Amersham2
Towns near Amersham6
Amersham in brief
Amersham is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East.
About 17,972 people lived in Amersham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £743,000 in 2025 across 238 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 45.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Amersham was £743,000 in 2025.
Amersham had 17,377 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Amersham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Amersham, 82.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.