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Eastleigh

Town

Town in Eastleigh, South East.

Eastleigh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Eastleigh 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 88% of people in Eastleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£320,000
Joint 361st most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
48,355
229th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
88%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
91.6%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Eastleigh compares

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

EastleighMiddle
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. Eastleigh is £320,000.
£320,000joint 40th cheapest
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Eastleigh is 48,355.
48,35539th most 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%. Eastleigh is 88.0%.
88%joint 59th most 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%. Eastleigh is 91.6%.
91.6%joint 89th highest

Is Eastleigh safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Eastleigh at a rate of 77.7 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, 394 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Eastleigh.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,798), other crime (769) and anti-social behaviour (511).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Eastleigh was 75.4 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 Eastleigh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Eastleigh has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Eastleigh

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Eastleigh 002C1,33233.0 per 1,0001094.8%
Eastleigh 002D1,85536.5 per 1,000985.6%
Eastleigh 004A1,66259.3 per 1,000765.2%
Eastleigh 004B2,11889.3 per 1,0007100.0%
Eastleigh 004C1,49246.9 per 1,000699.4%
Eastleigh 004D2,27350.8 per 1,000699.9%
Eastleigh 004E1,50348.4 per 1,000895.4%
Eastleigh 005A1,53241.1 per 1,000888.9%
Eastleigh 005B1,21926.2 per 1,000993.0%
Eastleigh 005C1,48535.3 per 1,000995.4%
Eastleigh 005D1,77825.8 per 1,0001088.1%
Eastleigh 005E1,53337.7 per 1,000399.8%
Eastleigh 005F1,20348.4 per 1,000799.6%
Eastleigh 006C1,99944.9 per 1,000599.9%
Eastleigh 006F1,39468.5 per 1,000594.4%
Eastleigh 006G1,92570.5 per 1,000695.6%
Eastleigh 006H1,158104.2 per 1,0004100.0%
Eastleigh 006I1,271137.4 per 1,000597.5%
Eastleigh 006J1,705140.2 per 1,000595.2%
Eastleigh 007A2,046271.8 per 1,000584.7%
Eastleigh 007B1,77693.8 per 1,0006100.0%
Eastleigh 007C1,479215.8 per 1,000395.2%
Eastleigh 007D1,448203.8 per 1,000478.4%
Eastleigh 007E1,94363.8 per 1,0006100.0%
Eastleigh 008A1,11228.4 per 1,0001095.4%
Eastleigh 008B1,89327.6 per 1,000984.3%
Eastleigh 008C2,29933.7 per 1,000885.0%
Eastleigh 008D1,40034.1 per 1,0001095.8%
Eastleigh 008E1,12248.4 per 1,000872.7%

Your MP

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Council1

Postcode districts covering Eastleigh1

Middle areas in Eastleigh5

Towns near Eastleigh6

Eastleigh in brief

Eastleigh is a town in Eastleigh, South East.

About 50,842 people lived in Eastleigh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £320,000 in 2025 across 734 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Eastleigh was £320,000 in 2025.

Eastleigh had 48,355 usual residents at the census.

About 88% of people in Eastleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Eastleigh, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.