Fareham
TownTown in Fareham, South East.
Fareham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Fareham 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 72% of people in Fareham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Fareham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Fareham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Fareham at a rate of 80.0 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, 328 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Fareham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,420), other crime (606) and anti-social behaviour (476).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Fareham was 80.2 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 Fareham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Fareham has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Fareham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fareham 003A | 1,493 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 003B | 1,261 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 003C | 1,454 | 124.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Fareham 003D | 1,643 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 003E | 1,395 | 181.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Fareham 004A | 1,492 | 38.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.3% |
| Fareham 004B | 1,292 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 004C | 1,428 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Fareham 004D | 1,511 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 004E | 1,153 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.0% |
| Fareham 004F | 1,797 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Fareham 008A | 1,551 | 61.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| Fareham 008B | 1,616 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Fareham 008C | 1,509 | 486.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.8% |
| Fareham 008D | 1,377 | 63.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 008E | 1,542 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Fareham 008F | 1,233 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Fareham 008G | 1,282 | 66.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Fareham 009A | 1,569 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 009B | 1,482 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Fareham 009C | 1,659 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 009D | 1,418 | 31.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| Fareham 009E | 1,354 | 24.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 011A | 1,643 | 112.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.6% |
| Fareham 011B | 1,771 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Fareham 011C | 1,571 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 011D | 1,018 | 102.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Fareham 011E | 1,568 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Suella BravermanReform UKMP for Fareham and Waterlooville
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 Fareham4
Middle areas in Fareham5
Towns near Fareham6
Fareham in brief
Fareham is a town in Fareham, South East.
About 42,930 people lived in Fareham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £311,500 in 2025 across 702 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Fareham was £311,500 in 2025.
Fareham had 42,633 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Fareham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Fareham, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.