Ashford Common
TownTown in Spelthorne, South East.
Ashford Common is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashford Common 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 Ashford Common live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashford Common compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashford Common safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashford Common at a rate of 62.3 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, 44 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashford Common.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (154), other crime (100) and shoplifting (86).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashford Common was 57.8 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 Common, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashford Common has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashford Common
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spelthorne 006B | 1,732 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.2% |
| Spelthorne 006C | 1,506 | 78.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Spelthorne 006D | 1,783 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.7% |
| Spelthorne 012B | 1,645 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
Your MP
- Lincoln JoppConservativeMP for Spelthorne
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 Ashford Common2
Middle areas in Ashford Common1
Towns near Ashford Common6
Ashford Common in brief
Ashford Common is a town in Spelthorne, South East.
About 8,551 people lived in Ashford Common in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £455,000 in 2025 across 114 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashford Common was £455,000 in 2025.
Ashford Common had 8,333 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ashford Common live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashford Common, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.