Cheshunt
TownTown in Broxbourne, East of England.
Cheshunt is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cheshunt 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 0% of people in Cheshunt live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cheshunt compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cheshunt safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cheshunt at a rate of 96.0 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, 387 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cheshunt.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,348), anti-social behaviour (873) and other crime (712).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cheshunt was 86.4 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 Cheshunt, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cheshunt has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cheshunt
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broxbourne 006A | 1,514 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.5% |
| Broxbourne 006B | 1,684 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.3% |
| Broxbourne 006C | 1,654 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Broxbourne 006D | 2,866 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Broxbourne 007B | 1,582 | 66.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Broxbourne 007D | 1,780 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Broxbourne 008A | 1,462 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Broxbourne 008B | 1,560 | 522.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Broxbourne 008C | 1,547 | 113.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.4% |
| Broxbourne 008D | 1,394 | 255.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Broxbourne 008E | 1,486 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Broxbourne 009A | 1,601 | 124.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Broxbourne 009B | 1,329 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Broxbourne 009C | 1,406 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.2% |
| Broxbourne 009D | 1,600 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| Broxbourne 010A | 1,368 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Broxbourne 010B | 1,564 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Broxbourne 010C | 1,720 | 118.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.3% |
| Broxbourne 010D | 1,589 | 113.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Broxbourne 010E | 1,828 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.4% |
| Broxbourne 011A | 1,745 | 72.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.7% |
| Broxbourne 011B | 1,901 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.7% |
| Broxbourne 011C | 1,391 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| Broxbourne 011D | 1,953 | 85.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.0% |
| Broxbourne 012B | 2,130 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.2% |
| Broxbourne 012C | 1,760 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Lewis CockingConservativeMP for Broxbourne
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 Cheshunt2
Middle areas in Cheshunt6
Towns near Cheshunt6
Cheshunt in brief
Cheshunt is a town in Broxbourne, East of England.
About 44,835 people lived in Cheshunt in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £440,000 in 2025 across 573 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cheshunt was £440,000 in 2025.
Cheshunt had 43,694 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Cheshunt live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cheshunt, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.