Ashley
TownTown in New Forest, South East.
Ashley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashley 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 14% of people in Ashley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashley at a rate of 40.1 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, 27 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (154), other crime (55) and anti-social behaviour (25).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashley was 43.5 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 Ashley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashley has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest 018C | 1,416 | 14.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.1% |
| New Forest 018E | 1,776 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| New Forest 020A | 1,949 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.4% |
| New Forest 021A | 1,443 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| New Forest 021B | 1,453 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.0% |
Your MP
- Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeMP for New Forest West
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 Ashley2
Towns near Ashley6
Ashley in brief
Ashley is a town in New Forest, South East.
About 7,685 people lived in Ashley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £390,000 in 2025 across 103 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 40.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashley was £390,000 in 2025.
Ashley had 7,730 usual residents at the census.
About 14% of people in Ashley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashley, 86.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.