# Beaconsfield

Town in Buckinghamshire, South East.

Beaconsfield is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East. Median sale price £965,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 69.1 per 1,000 people. About 14,716 people.

Town. Code E63004769. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Buckinghamshire](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £965,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Beaconsfield was £965,000 in 2025. 6th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 14,142** (2021). Beaconsfield had 14,142 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 462nd least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 73%** (2022). About 73% of people in Beaconsfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 78.4%** (January 2026). In Beaconsfield, 78.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004769) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 73% of people in Beaconsfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004769) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 223 homes were sold in Beaconsfield in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63004769) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Beaconsfield.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004769) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Beaconsfield had 14,142 usual residents at the census.

## How Beaconsfield compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Beaconsfield | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £965,000 | 4th most expensive | 209 towns, South East · 2025 |
| Population | 14,142 | 68th least populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 73% | 76th most people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 78.4% | 20th lowest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Beaconsfield

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Buckinghamshire 039C](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017782) | 1,540 | 21.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.1% |
| [Buckinghamshire 039E](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017784) | 1,671 | 31.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 61.9% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053A](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017796) | 1,828 | 123.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 63.6% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053B](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017797) | 1,378 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.8% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053C](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017798) | 1,819 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.0% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053D](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017799) | 2,177 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.2% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053E](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017800) | 1,710 | 128.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 75.2% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053F](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017801) | 1,679 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
| [Buckinghamshire 053G](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017802) | 1,644 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.6% |

## Your MP

- [Beaconsfield](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/beaconsfield): Joy Morrissey (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Buckinghamshire](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire)

## Postcode districts covering Beaconsfield

[HP9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp9), [HP10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp10)

## Middle areas in Beaconsfield

[Beaconsfield Town](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/beaconsfield-town)

## Towns near Beaconsfield

[Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green](https://openindex.co.uk/town/flackwell-heath-and-wooburn-green), [Hazlemere](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hazlemere), [High Wycombe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/high-wycombe), [Chalfont St Peter](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chalfont-st-peter), [Gerrards Cross](https://openindex.co.uk/town/gerrards-cross), [Amersham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/amersham)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63004769
- Constituency: [Beaconsfield †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/beaconsfield)
- Council: [Buckinghamshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire)
- Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 6.61 km²
- People, mid-2024: 14,716*
- Neighbourhoods: 9
- Output areas: 38

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green](https://openindex.co.uk/town/flackwell-heath-and-wooburn-green), [Hazlemere](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hazlemere), [High Wycombe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/high-wycombe), [Chalfont St Peter](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chalfont-st-peter), [Gerrards Cross](https://openindex.co.uk/town/gerrards-cross), [Amersham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/amersham)

## Latest updates for Beaconsfield

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004769

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/beaconsfield
