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Beaconsfield

Town

Town in Buckinghamshire, South East.

Beaconsfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Beaconsfield 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 73% of people in Beaconsfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£965,000
6th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
14,142
462nd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
73%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
78.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Beaconsfield compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BeaconsfieldMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Beaconsfield is £965,000.
£965,0004th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Beaconsfield is 14,142.
14,14268th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Beaconsfield is 73.0%.
73%76th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Beaconsfield is 78.4%.
78.4%20th lowest

Is Beaconsfield safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Beaconsfield at a rate of 69.1 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, 103 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Beaconsfield.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (289), other crime (174) and shoplifting (113).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Beaconsfield was 61.0 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 Beaconsfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Beaconsfield has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Beaconsfield

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Buckinghamshire 039C1,54021.9 per 1,0001089.1%
Buckinghamshire 039E1,67131.5 per 1,0001061.9%
Buckinghamshire 053A1,828123.6 per 1,000863.6%
Buckinghamshire 053B1,37828.6 per 1,0001087.8%
Buckinghamshire 053C1,81929.4 per 1,0001081.0%
Buckinghamshire 053D2,17789.3 per 1,0001071.2%
Buckinghamshire 053E1,710128.3 per 1,000675.2%
Buckinghamshire 053F1,67945.1 per 1,0001093.2%
Buckinghamshire 053G1,64469.2 per 1,000792.6%

Your MP

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 Beaconsfield2

Middle areas in Beaconsfield1

Towns near Beaconsfield6

Beaconsfield in brief

Beaconsfield is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East.

About 14,716 people lived in Beaconsfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £965,000 in 2025 across 223 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Beaconsfield was £965,000 in 2025.

Beaconsfield had 14,142 usual residents at the census.

About 73% of people in Beaconsfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Beaconsfield, 78.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.