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Byfleet

Town

Town in Woking and Elmbridge, South East.

Byfleet is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Byfleet 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 Byfleet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£492,750
83rd most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
14,187
Joint 465th least 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
79.1%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Byfleet compares

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

ByfleetMiddle
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. Byfleet is £492,750.
£492,75043rd most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Byfleet is 14,187.
14,18769th least 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%. Byfleet 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%. Byfleet is 79.1%.
79.1%23rd lowest

Is Byfleet safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Byfleet at a rate of 61.1 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Byfleet.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (302), other crime (170) and anti-social behaviour (127).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Byfleet was 65.1 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 Byfleet, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Byfleet has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • 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 Byfleet

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Elmbridge 016A1,50966.2 per 1,0001067.0%
Elmbridge 016B1,775180.0 per 1,000866.1%
Elmbridge 016C1,64424.3 per 1,0001041.8%
Elmbridge 016D1,72020.5 per 1,0001058.8%
Woking 001A1,44678.1 per 1,000495.3%
Woking 001B1,47633.4 per 1,000898.3%
Woking 001C1,63872.2 per 1,000996.4%
Woking 001D1,89551.8 per 1,000893.6%
Woking 001E1,56730.3 per 1,000898.4%

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.

Councils Byfleet sits in2

Postcode districts covering Byfleet2

Middle areas in Byfleet2

Towns near Byfleet6

Byfleet in brief

Byfleet is a town in Woking and Elmbridge, South East.

About 14,250 people lived in Byfleet in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £492,750 in 2025 across 220 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Byfleet was £492,750 in 2025.

Byfleet had 14,187 usual residents at the census.

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

In Byfleet, 79.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.