Chorleywood
TownTown in Three Rivers, East of England.
Chorleywood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chorleywood 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 94% of people in Chorleywood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chorleywood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chorleywood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chorleywood at a rate of 35.9 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, 37 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chorleywood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (166), anti-social behaviour (71) and shoplifting (57).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chorleywood was 40.5 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 Chorleywood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chorleywood has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chorleywood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers 004A | 1,549 | 18.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Three Rivers 004B | 1,619 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.3% |
| Three Rivers 004C | 1,080 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Three Rivers 005A | 1,581 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Three Rivers 005B | 1,284 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| Three Rivers 005C | 1,394 | 78.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.3% |
| Three Rivers 005D | 1,451 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Three Rivers 007B | 1,862 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Three Rivers 007E | 2,174 | 13.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Mr Gagan MohindraConservativeMP for South West 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 Chorleywood1
Middle areas in Chorleywood2
Towns near Chorleywood6
Chorleywood in brief
Chorleywood is a town in Three Rivers, East of England.
About 12,923 people lived in Chorleywood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £950,000 in 2025 across 164 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 35.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chorleywood was £950,000 in 2025.
Chorleywood had 12,632 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Chorleywood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chorleywood, 96.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.