Bushey
TownTown in Hertsmere, East of England.
Bushey is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bushey 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 37% of people in Bushey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bushey compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bushey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bushey at a rate of 63.9 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, 160 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bushey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (739), anti-social behaviour (351) and other crime (302).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bushey was 69.9 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 Bushey, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bushey has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- 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 Bushey
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hertsmere 008A | 1,706 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Hertsmere 008B | 2,089 | 51.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.0% |
| Hertsmere 008C | 1,753 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Hertsmere 008D | 1,971 | 143.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.4% |
| Hertsmere 012A | 1,822 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Hertsmere 012B | 1,664 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Hertsmere 012C | 1,928 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Hertsmere 012D | 1,692 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Hertsmere 012E | 1,814 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Hertsmere 012F | 1,851 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.6% |
| Hertsmere 013A | 2,047 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 64.0% |
| Hertsmere 013B | 1,744 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.5% |
| Hertsmere 013C | 1,777 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| Hertsmere 013D | 1,552 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| Hertsmere 013E | 1,897 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Hertsmere 013F | 1,535 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
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 Bushey1
Middle areas in Bushey3
Towns near Bushey6
Bushey in brief
Bushey is a town in Hertsmere, East of England.
About 29,831 people lived in Bushey in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £570,000 in 2025 across 390 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 63.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bushey was £570,000 in 2025.
Bushey had 28,427 usual residents at the census.
About 37% of people in Bushey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bushey, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.