Billingshurst
TownTown in Horsham, South East.
Billingshurst is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Billingshurst 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 0% of people in Billingshurst live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Billingshurst compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Billingshurst safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Billingshurst at a rate of 53.9 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, 57 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Billingshurst.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (183), other crime (109) and anti-social behaviour (107).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Billingshurst was 55.0 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 Billingshurst, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Billingshurst has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 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 Billingshurst
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsham 010B | 2,106 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.7% |
| Horsham 010D | 2,592 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.3% |
| Horsham 010E | 1,785 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 65.9% |
| Horsham 010F | 1,643 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.3% |
| Horsham 010G | 1,405 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 74.7% |
Your MP
- John MilneLiberal DemocratMP for Horsham
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 Billingshurst1
Middle areas in Billingshurst1
Towns near Billingshurst6
Billingshurst in brief
Billingshurst is a town in Horsham, South East.
About 9,909 people lived in Billingshurst in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £385,000 in 2025 across 163 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Billingshurst was £385,000 in 2025.
Billingshurst had 9,121 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Billingshurst live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Billingshurst, 79.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.