Bishop's Stortford
TownTown in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
Bishop's Stortford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bishop's Stortford 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 65% of people in Bishop's Stortford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bishop's Stortford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bishop's Stortford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bishop's Stortford at a rate of 80.5 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, 340 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bishop's Stortford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,189), anti-social behaviour (882) and other crime (494).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bishop's Stortford was 71.3 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 Bishop's Stortford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bishop's Stortford has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 15 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bishop's Stortford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 003A | 1,303 | 19.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Hertfordshire 003B | 2,074 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.3% |
| East Hertfordshire 003C | 2,227 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 003D | 1,363 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 004A | 1,819 | 139.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 72.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 004C | 2,307 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.9% |
| East Hertfordshire 004D | 1,610 | 124.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 004E | 1,131 | 416.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 41.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 005A | 1,527 | 60.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.0% |
| East Hertfordshire 005B | 1,417 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| East Hertfordshire 005C | 1,737 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 005D | 1,523 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 005E | 2,256 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 007A | 1,403 | 17.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.9% |
| East Hertfordshire 007B | 1,904 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 007C | 1,735 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 007E | 1,327 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 007F | 1,472 | 119.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.9% |
| East Hertfordshire 007G | 1,451 | 208.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 007H | 1,081 | 182.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 008A | 1,336 | 12.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.0% |
| East Hertfordshire 008B | 1,472 | 25.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.3% |
| East Hertfordshire 008C | 1,380 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 008D | 1,293 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 008E | 1,545 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 008F | 1,557 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Josh DeanLabourMP for Hertford and Stortford
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Bishop's Stortford1
Middle areas in Bishop's Stortford5
Towns near Bishop's Stortford6
Bishop's Stortford in brief
Bishop's Stortford is a town in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 44,036 people lived in Bishop's Stortford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 755 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bishop's Stortford was £435,000 in 2025.
Bishop's Stortford had 40,916 usual residents at the census.
About 65% of people in Bishop's Stortford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bishop's Stortford, 88.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.