Borehamwood
TownTown in Hertsmere, East of England.
Borehamwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Borehamwood 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 1% of people in Borehamwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Borehamwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Borehamwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Borehamwood at a rate of 103.8 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, 390 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Borehamwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,414), anti-social behaviour (892) and other crime (713).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Borehamwood was 121.0 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 Borehamwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Borehamwood has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Borehamwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hertsmere 006A | 1,855 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Hertsmere 006B | 1,804 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Hertsmere 006C | 1,644 | 166.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.2% |
| Hertsmere 006D | 2,780 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.9% |
| Hertsmere 006E | 2,131 | 173.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.0% |
| Hertsmere 007A | 1,534 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Hertsmere 007B | 1,299 | 270.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.4% |
| Hertsmere 007C | 2,002 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.6% |
| Hertsmere 007D | 1,645 | 188.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.0% |
| Hertsmere 007E | 1,648 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Hertsmere 009A | 1,174 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.8% |
| Hertsmere 009B | 1,808 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.4% |
| Hertsmere 009C | 2,018 | 157.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| Hertsmere 009D | 1,869 | 113.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.7% |
| Hertsmere 010C | 1,831 | 59.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.4% |
| Hertsmere 010D | 1,527 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.6% |
| Hertsmere 011B | 1,853 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.5% |
| Hertsmere 011C | 2,487 | 82.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Hertsmere 011D | 1,952 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.5% |
| Hertsmere 011E | 1,423 | 118.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.8% |
| Hertsmere 011F | 1,711 | 161.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.2% |
| Hertsmere 011G | 1,685 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.1% |
Your MP
- Sir Oliver DowdenConservativeMP for Hertsmere
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 Borehamwood1
Middle areas in Borehamwood4
Towns near Borehamwood6
Borehamwood in brief
Borehamwood is a town in Hertsmere, East of England.
About 40,581 people lived in Borehamwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £449,000 in 2025 across 336 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Borehamwood was £449,000 in 2025.
Borehamwood had 39,760 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Borehamwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Borehamwood, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.