Ampthill
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Ampthill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ampthill 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 0% of people in Ampthill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ampthill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ampthill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ampthill at a rate of 36.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 35 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ampthill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (135), anti-social behaviour (66) and other crime (46).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ampthill was 37.6 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 Ampthill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ampthill has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ampthill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 012A | 1,791 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Central Bedfordshire 012B | 1,844 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 012C | 2,327 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 012D | 1,541 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 012E | 1,469 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
Your MP
- Blake StephensonConservativeMP for Mid Bedfordshire
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 Ampthill1
Middle areas in Ampthill1
Towns near Ampthill6
Ampthill in brief
Ampthill is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 9,126 people lived in Ampthill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £425,500 in 2025 across 153 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 36.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ampthill was £425,500 in 2025.
Ampthill had 8,825 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ampthill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ampthill, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.