Ashford
TownTown in Spelthorne, 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 0% 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 75.7 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, 151 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 (617), other crime (349) and anti-social behaviour (252).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashford was 79.4 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 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spelthorne 003A | 2,085 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.2% |
| Spelthorne 003B | 1,689 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Spelthorne 003C | 1,806 | 192.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
| Spelthorne 003D | 1,331 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| Spelthorne 003E | 1,498 | 141.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Spelthorne 003F | 1,555 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.7% |
| Spelthorne 003G | 1,466 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Spelthorne 005A | 1,613 | 69.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.8% |
| Spelthorne 005B | 1,310 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.0% |
| Spelthorne 005C | 1,624 | 60.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Spelthorne 005D | 1,605 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.8% |
| Spelthorne 005E | 1,654 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.2% |
| Spelthorne 005F | 1,503 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Spelthorne 006A | 1,723 | 35.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Spelthorne 007C | 1,849 | 60.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
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 Ashford1
Middle areas in Ashford2
Towns near Ashford6
Ashford in brief
Ashford is a town in Spelthorne, South East.
About 24,110 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 £456,250 in 2025 across 294 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashford was £456,250 in 2025.
Ashford had 22,823 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ashford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashford, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.