Buckhurst Hill
TownTown in Epping Forest, East of England.
Buckhurst Hill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buckhurst Hill 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 Buckhurst Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Buckhurst Hill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Buckhurst Hill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Buckhurst Hill at a rate of 57.7 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, 70 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Buckhurst Hill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (279), other crime (119) and vehicle crime (100).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Buckhurst Hill was 57.1 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 Buckhurst Hill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Buckhurst Hill has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Buckhurst Hill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest 015A | 1,332 | 97.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Epping Forest 015B | 1,711 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.7% |
| Epping Forest 015C | 1,686 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.2% |
| Epping Forest 015D | 1,678 | 61.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.5% |
| Epping Forest 015E | 1,918 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.1% |
| Epping Forest 015F | 1,665 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Epping Forest 015G | 1,762 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Dr Neil HudsonConservativeMP for Epping Forest
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 Buckhurst Hill1
Middle areas in Buckhurst Hill1
Towns near Buckhurst Hill6
Buckhurst Hill in brief
Buckhurst Hill is a town in Epping Forest, East of England.
About 11,982 people lived in Buckhurst Hill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £615,750 in 2025 across 186 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Buckhurst Hill was £615,750 in 2025.
Buckhurst Hill had 11,749 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Buckhurst Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Buckhurst Hill, 91.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.