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Bracknell

Town

Town in Bracknell Forest, South East.

Bracknell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bracknell 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Bracknell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£385,000
Joint 205th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
78,662
135th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
98.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Bracknell compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BracknellMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Bracknell is £385,000.
£385,000joint 99th cheapest
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Bracknell is 78,662.
78,66218th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Bracknell is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Bracknell is 98.5%.
98.5%4th highest

Is Bracknell safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bracknell at a rate of 78.8 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, 614 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bracknell.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,463), other crime (1,217) and anti-social behaviour (832).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bracknell was 77.0 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 Bracknell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bracknell has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 13 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 10 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Bracknell

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Bracknell Forest 001G1,81416.6 per 1,0001098.1%
Bracknell Forest 002E1,92739.5 per 1,0001099.5%
Bracknell Forest 002I1,10035.7 per 1,0001099.8%
Bracknell Forest 002J1,48869.6 per 1,000889.0%
Bracknell Forest 003A1,59943.7 per 1,0008100.0%
Bracknell Forest 003B1,62384.9 per 1,000890.5%
Bracknell Forest 003C1,39440.7 per 1,0001099.5%
Bracknell Forest 003D2,32418.4 per 1,0001099.9%
Bracknell Forest 003E1,55529.4 per 1,00010100.0%
Bracknell Forest 003F1,77037.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Bracknell Forest 004A1,56152.0 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 004B1,66653.4 per 1,000695.9%
Bracknell Forest 004C1,65266.8 per 1,000599.1%
Bracknell Forest 004D2,078186.4 per 1,000499.9%
Bracknell Forest 005E1,24516.9 per 1,00010100.0%
Bracknell Forest 006B1,68050.0 per 1,0008100.0%
Bracknell Forest 006C1,255169.2 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 006D2,17075.0 per 1,000696.4%
Bracknell Forest 006E1,47188.1 per 1,000699.6%
Bracknell Forest 006F1,73174.1 per 1,0005100.0%
Bracknell Forest 006G1,88671.4 per 1,000699.9%
Bracknell Forest 007B2,608113.6 per 1,000497.4%
Bracknell Forest 007C1,53478.6 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 007E1,78264.9 per 1,000898.5%
Bracknell Forest 007F1,286550.6 per 1,000587.5%
Bracknell Forest 007G1,532199.1 per 1,000699.8%
Bracknell Forest 007H1,78965.9 per 1,000893.8%
Bracknell Forest 007I1,33745.0 per 1,0008100.0%
Bracknell Forest 008A1,33851.1 per 1,000999.8%
Bracknell Forest 008B1,28561.2 per 1,000999.3%
Bracknell Forest 008C1,21638.7 per 1,000999.8%
Bracknell Forest 008D1,29665.4 per 1,000499.8%
Bracknell Forest 008E1,18843.7 per 1,0007100.0%
Bracknell Forest 009A1,48972.2 per 1,000898.0%
Bracknell Forest 009B1,30385.7 per 1,0004100.0%
Bracknell Forest 009D1,09660.6 per 1,000891.8%
Bracknell Forest 009E1,31636.8 per 1,0001099.8%
Bracknell Forest 009F1,23073.2 per 1,000495.7%
Bracknell Forest 009H1,74651.8 per 1,000699.9%
Bracknell Forest 009I1,61374.5 per 1,0001099.8%
Bracknell Forest 009J1,82945.5 per 1,000999.8%
Bracknell Forest 010A1,28740.7 per 1,0007100.0%
Bracknell Forest 010B1,380130.8 per 1,000799.8%
Bracknell Forest 010C1,390122.6 per 1,000599.8%
Bracknell Forest 010D1,95274.4 per 1,000699.9%
Bracknell Forest 010E1,432146.4 per 1,0007100.0%
Bracknell Forest 011A1,33938.9 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 011B1,34943.5 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 011C1,32661.6 per 1,0008100.0%
Bracknell Forest 011D1,42449.1 per 1,0006100.0%
Bracknell Forest 011E1,28576.5 per 1,0007100.0%

Your MP

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 Bracknell2

Middle areas in Bracknell8

Towns near Bracknell6

Bracknell in brief

Bracknell is a town in Bracknell Forest, South East.

About 82,249 people lived in Bracknell 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 1,060 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 78.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Bracknell was £385,000 in 2025.

Bracknell had 78,662 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Bracknell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Bracknell, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.