Compare

Ascot

Town

Town in Windsor and Maidenhead and Bracknell Forest, South East.

Ascot is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ascot 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.

Open in map

Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Ascot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£646,500
26th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
24,003
459th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
90.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Ascot compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

AscotMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Ascot is £646,500.
£646,50013th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Ascot is 24,003.
24,00390th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Ascot is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Ascot is 90.7%.
90.7%99th highest

Is Ascot safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ascot at a rate of 43.4 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, 111 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ascot.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (459), other crime (217) and anti-social behaviour (116).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ascot was 43.7 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 Ascot, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ascot has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Ascot

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Bracknell Forest 005A1,28726.5 per 1,000899.3%
Bracknell Forest 005B1,77140.5 per 1,0001089.5%
Bracknell Forest 005C1,49227.0 per 1,0001099.9%
Bracknell Forest 005D1,36521.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 017A1,87220.1 per 1,0001089.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead 017B1,56983.2 per 1,000971.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 017C2,11655.2 per 1,0001087.8%
Windsor and Maidenhead 017D1,86553.8 per 1,000896.7%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018A1,78050.8 per 1,0001089.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018B2,24342.7 per 1,0001090.8%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018C1,61354.8 per 1,000998.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018D1,67019.9 per 1,0001099.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018E1,97222.8 per 1,0001085.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 018F1,95267.4 per 1,000986.0%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

Councils Ascot sits in2

Postcode districts covering Ascot1

Middle areas in Ascot3

Towns near Ascot6

Ascot in brief

Ascot is a town in Windsor and Maidenhead and Bracknell Forest, South East.

About 24,754 people lived in Ascot in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £646,500 in 2025 across 406 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 43.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Ascot was £646,500 in 2025.

Ascot had 24,003 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Ascot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Ascot, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.