Ashford
TownTown in Ashford, South East.
Ashford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashford 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 67% of people in Ashford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashford at a rate of 93.2 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, 793 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,933), anti-social behaviour (1,639) and other crime (1,305).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashford was 94.0 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 Ashford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashford has no single figure. Of its 48 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashford 001F | 1,587 | 116.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.4% |
| Ashford 001G | 1,778 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 62.3% |
| Ashford 003A | 1,483 | 93.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Ashford 003B | 2,275 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.7% |
| Ashford 003D | 1,595 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.2% |
| Ashford 003E | 1,448 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Ashford 005A | 2,802 | 109.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.7% |
| Ashford 005B | 1,467 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Ashford 005C | 2,635 | 89.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Ashford 005E | 2,517 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Ashford 005F | 1,385 | 221.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.5% |
| Ashford 005G | 1,299 | 610.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.9% |
| Ashford 006A | 1,434 | 81.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 006B | 1,177 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Ashford 006C | 1,270 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Ashford 006D | 1,842 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Ashford 006E | 2,253 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.9% |
| Ashford 006F | 1,586 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 007A | 1,472 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 007B | 2,177 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Ashford 007C | 1,432 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 007D | 1,347 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.8% |
| Ashford 007E | 1,903 | 100.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Ashford 007F | 1,709 | 120.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.5% |
| Ashford 008A | 1,820 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Ashford 008B | 1,730 | 121.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.2% |
| Ashford 008C | 2,044 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.0% |
| Ashford 008E | 2,026 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| Ashford 008F | 1,627 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Ashford 009A | 1,592 | 305.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.4% |
| Ashford 009B | 1,266 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 009D | 2,015 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Ashford 009F | 1,036 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.3% |
| Ashford 009G | 1,178 | 90.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.0% |
| Ashford 009H | 1,524 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Ashford 009I | 1,753 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.3% |
| Ashford 009J | 1,437 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.8% |
| Ashford 012E | 1,904 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.5% |
| Ashford 012F | 2,100 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.3% |
| Ashford 015A | 1,118 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Ashford 015B | 1,580 | 160.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.3% |
| Ashford 015C | 1,288 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Ashford 015D | 1,563 | 108.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.3% |
| Ashford 015E | 1,480 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.1% |
| Ashford 016A | 3,002 | 39.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.4% |
| Ashford 016B | 2,533 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.1% |
| Ashford 016C | 1,842 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.4% |
| Ashford 016D | 1,467 | 102.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
Your MP
- Sojan JosephLabourMP for Ashford
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Ashford3
Middle areas in Ashford8
Towns near Ashford6
Ashford in brief
Ashford is a town in Ashford, South East.
About 87,136 people lived in Ashford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 1,141 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashford was £310,000 in 2025.
Ashford had 82,143 usual residents at the census.
About 67% of people in Ashford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashford, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.