Andover
TownTown in Test Valley, South East.
Andover is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Andover 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Andover, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Andover compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Andover safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Andover at a rate of 87.0 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, 412 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Andover.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,928), other crime (794) and anti-social behaviour (700).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Andover was 83.0 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 Andover, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Andover has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 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 Andover
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test Valley 001C | 1,314 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Test Valley 001D | 1,504 | 31.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.3% |
| Test Valley 002A | 1,731 | 113.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.3% |
| Test Valley 002B | 1,609 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Test Valley 002C | 1,397 | 142.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Test Valley 002D | 1,339 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Test Valley 002E | 1,297 | 91.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Test Valley 004A | 1,849 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| Test Valley 004B | 1,411 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.9% |
| Test Valley 004C | 1,208 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.4% |
| Test Valley 004D | 1,422 | 101.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.4% |
| Test Valley 004E | 1,601 | 337.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 76.0% |
| Test Valley 005B | 1,646 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 75.0% |
| Test Valley 005C | 1,652 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| Test Valley 005D | 1,921 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.2% |
| Test Valley 005F | 1,877 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Test Valley 006A | 1,550 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.2% |
| Test Valley 006B | 1,259 | 18.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.8% |
| Test Valley 006C | 1,901 | 265.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 65.5% |
| Test Valley 006D | 1,585 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Test Valley 006E | 1,502 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Test Valley 016A | 1,420 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.9% |
| Test Valley 016C | 1,709 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Test Valley 016D | 1,659 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Test Valley 016E | 1,463 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Test Valley 017B | 1,644 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.8% |
| Test Valley 017C | 1,343 | 97.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.9% |
| Test Valley 017D | 1,262 | 61.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| Test Valley 017E | 1,575 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| Test Valley 018A | 1,965 | 258.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 61.4% |
| Test Valley 018B | 1,398 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.2% |
| Test Valley 018C | 1,712 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.6% |
Your MP
- Kit MalthouseConservativeMP for North West 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 Andover2
Middle areas in Andover7
Towns near Andover6
Andover in brief
Andover is a town in Test Valley, South East.
About 50,868 people lived in Andover in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £305,500 in 2025 across 736 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Andover was £305,500 in 2025.
Andover had 48,484 usual residents at the census.
In Andover, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Andover, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.