Buckingham
TownTown in Buckinghamshire, South East.
Buckingham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buckingham 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 85% of people in Buckingham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Buckingham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Buckingham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Buckingham at a rate of 57.6 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, 92 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Buckingham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (383), other crime (177) and anti-social behaviour (114).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Buckingham was 59.2 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 Buckingham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Buckingham has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Buckingham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckinghamshire 001A | 1,644 | 13.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Buckinghamshire 001B | 2,504 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.9% |
| Buckinghamshire 001E | 1,681 | 65.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.8% |
| Buckinghamshire 001F | 1,713 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Buckinghamshire 002A | 1,463 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Buckinghamshire 002B | 1,432 | 142.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 73.2% |
| Buckinghamshire 002C | 2,320 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.6% |
| Buckinghamshire 002D | 1,535 | 8.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Callum AndersonLabourMP for Buckingham and Bletchley
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 Buckingham1
Middle areas in Buckingham2
Towns near Buckingham6
Buckingham in brief
Buckingham is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East.
About 15,163 people lived in Buckingham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £366,500 in 2025 across 250 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Buckingham was £366,500 in 2025.
Buckingham had 14,296 usual residents at the census.
About 85% of people in Buckingham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Buckingham, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.