Buntingford
TownTown in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
Buntingford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buntingford 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 96% of people in Buntingford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Buntingford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Buntingford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Buntingford at a rate of 70.9 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, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Buntingford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (226), anti-social behaviour (164) and criminal damage and arson (53).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Buntingford was 61.6 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 Buntingford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Buntingford has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Buntingford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 001C | 1,633 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 001D | 2,140 | 98.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 001E | 1,752 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 001F | 1,291 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 001G | 1,116 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
Your MP
- Chris HinchliffLabourMP for North East Hertfordshire
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 Buntingford1
Middle areas in Buntingford1
Towns near Buntingford6
Buntingford in brief
Buntingford is a town in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 8,316 people lived in Buntingford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £432,500 in 2025 across 115 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Buntingford was £432,500 in 2025.
Buntingford had 7,877 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Buntingford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Buntingford, 93.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.