Barnham
TownTown in Arun, South East.
Barnham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barnham 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 Barnham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barnham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barnham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barnham at a rate of 73.0 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barnham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (300), other crime (160) and anti-social behaviour (148).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barnham was 79.0 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 Barnham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barnham has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barnham
Your MP
- Andrew GriffithConservativeMP for Arundel and South Downs
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 Barnham2
Middle areas in Barnham1
Towns near Barnham6
Barnham in brief
Barnham is a town in Arun, South East.
About 11,551 people lived in Barnham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £380,000 in 2025 across 213 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barnham was £380,000 in 2025.
Barnham had 10,139 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Barnham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barnham, 66.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.