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Cobham

Town

Town in Elmbridge, South East.

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

Median sale price
£1,000,000
5th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
17,505
604th most 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
68.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Cobham compares

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

CobhamMiddle
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. Cobham is £1,000,000.
£1,000,0003rd 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. Cobham is 17,505.
17,50598th 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%. Cobham 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%. Cobham is 68.5%.
68.5%4th lowest

Is Cobham safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cobham at a rate of 57.4 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 Cobham.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (373), other crime (187) and anti-social behaviour (155).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cobham was 49.7 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 Cobham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cobham has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 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 Cobham

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Elmbridge 017A1,63997.2 per 1,000672.0%
Elmbridge 017B1,59243.9 per 1,000983.2%
Elmbridge 017C1,787234.3 per 1,000864.5%
Elmbridge 017D1,691124.4 per 1,000386.5%
Elmbridge 017E1,65321.2 per 1,0001047.7%
Elmbridge 017F1,58346.1 per 1,0001078.9%
Elmbridge 018A1,72627.3 per 1,0001056.3%
Elmbridge 018B1,80437.5 per 1,0001054.2%
Elmbridge 018C1,82139.1 per 1,0001076.4%
Elmbridge 018D1,51750.1 per 1,0001062.6%
Elmbridge 018E1,68129.9 per 1,0001086.9%

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.

Council1

Postcode districts covering Cobham2

Middle areas in Cobham2

Towns near Cobham6

Cobham in brief

Cobham is a town in Elmbridge, South East.

About 17,564 people lived in Cobham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £1,000,000 in 2025 across 299 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Cobham was £1,000,000 in 2025.

Cobham had 17,505 usual residents at the census.

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

In Cobham, 68.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.