Banstead
TownTown in Reigate and Banstead, South East.
Banstead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Banstead 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 100% of people in Banstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Banstead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Banstead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Banstead at a rate of 57.0 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, 48 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Banstead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (168), anti-social behaviour (81) and other crime (73).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Banstead was 63.9 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 Banstead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Banstead has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Banstead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reigate and Banstead 002A | 1,239 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Reigate and Banstead 002B | 1,589 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.3% |
| Reigate and Banstead 002C | 1,366 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Reigate and Banstead 002D | 1,308 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| Reigate and Banstead 002F | 1,396 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
Your MP
- Rebecca PaulConservativeMP for Reigate
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 Banstead1
Middle areas in Banstead1
Towns near Banstead6
Banstead in brief
Banstead is a town in Reigate and Banstead, South East.
About 8,786 people lived in Banstead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £630,000 in 2025 across 133 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Banstead was £630,000 in 2025.
Banstead had 8,929 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Banstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Banstead, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.