Ashtead
TownTown in Mole Valley, South East.
Ashtead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashtead 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 60% of people in Ashtead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashtead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashtead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashtead at a rate of 29.9 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, 35 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashtead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (171), other crime (93) and anti-social behaviour (53).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashtead was 36.5 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 Ashtead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashtead has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashtead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mole Valley 001A | 1,324 | 14.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Mole Valley 001B | 1,444 | 19.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.5% |
| Mole Valley 001C | 1,208 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 70.3% |
| Mole Valley 001D | 1,434 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Mole Valley 001E | 1,493 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.2% |
| Mole Valley 002A | 1,572 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.1% |
| Mole Valley 002B | 1,277 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.7% |
| Mole Valley 002C | 1,598 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.7% |
| Mole Valley 002D | 1,607 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.3% |
| Mole Valley 004A | 1,875 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.5% |
Your MP
- Helen MaguireLiberal DemocratMP for Epsom and Ewell
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 Ashtead1
Middle areas in Ashtead2
Towns near Ashtead6
Ashtead in brief
Ashtead is a town in Mole Valley, South East.
About 14,897 people lived in Ashtead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £730,000 in 2025 across 171 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 29.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashtead was £730,000 in 2025.
Ashtead had 14,830 usual residents at the census.
About 60% of people in Ashtead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashtead, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.