Berkhamsted
TownTown in Dacorum, East of England.
Berkhamsted is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Berkhamsted 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 Berkhamsted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Berkhamsted compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Berkhamsted safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Berkhamsted at a rate of 58.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 108 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Berkhamsted.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (383), anti-social behaviour (299) and other crime (183).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Berkhamsted was 51.1 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 Berkhamsted, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Berkhamsted has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Berkhamsted
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dacorum 006C | 1,481 | 57.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 67.3% |
| Dacorum 006D | 1,355 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.1% |
| Dacorum 009A | 1,660 | 177.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.3% |
| Dacorum 009B | 1,837 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 37.4% |
| Dacorum 009C | 1,545 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.9% |
| Dacorum 009D | 1,329 | No figure | 10 | 97.9% |
| Dacorum 012A | 1,535 | 91.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.0% |
| Dacorum 012B | 1,681 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.8% |
| Dacorum 012C | 1,791 | 31.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.4% |
| Dacorum 012D | 1,529 | 14.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.7% |
| Dacorum 014A | 1,318 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 62.3% |
| Dacorum 014B | 1,548 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.5% |
| Dacorum 014C | 1,221 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.8% |
| Dacorum 014D | 1,786 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.5% |
Your MP
- Victoria CollinsLiberal DemocratMP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted
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 Berkhamsted1
Middle areas in Berkhamsted3
Towns near Berkhamsted6
Berkhamsted in brief
Berkhamsted is a town in Dacorum, East of England.
About 21,659 people lived in Berkhamsted in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £627,500 in 2025 across 338 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 58.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Berkhamsted was £627,500 in 2025.
Berkhamsted had 21,236 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Berkhamsted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Berkhamsted, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.