Caterham
TownTown in Tandridge, South East.
Caterham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Caterham 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 100% of people in Caterham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Caterham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Caterham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Caterham at a rate of 76.3 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, 134 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Caterham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (608), other crime (399) and anti-social behaviour (304).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Caterham was 75.9 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 Caterham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Caterham has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Caterham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandridge 003A | 1,839 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.7% |
| Tandridge 003B | 1,271 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Tandridge 003C | 1,576 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| Tandridge 003D | 2,201 | 115.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.1% |
| Tandridge 003E | 2,630 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.7% |
| Tandridge 004A | 1,439 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 69.2% |
| Tandridge 004B | 1,720 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 77.5% |
| Tandridge 004C | 1,349 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| Tandridge 004D | 2,462 | 174.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.6% |
| Tandridge 004E | 2,059 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.8% |
| Tandridge 005B | 1,593 | 84.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.1% |
| Tandridge 005C | 2,256 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.6% |
Your MP
- Claire CoutinhoConservativeMP for East Surrey
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 Caterham1
Middle areas in Caterham3
Towns near Caterham6
Caterham in brief
Caterham is a town in Tandridge, South East.
About 23,514 people lived in Caterham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £460,000 in 2025 across 350 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Caterham was £460,000 in 2025.
Caterham had 22,757 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Caterham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Caterham, 87.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.