Farnham
TownTown in Waverley, South East.
Farnham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Farnham 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 38% of people in Farnham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Farnham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Farnham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Farnham at a rate of 56.6 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, 135 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Farnham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (433), other crime (260) and anti-social behaviour (208).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Farnham was 56.5 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 Farnham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Farnham has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Farnham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waverley 003A | 1,595 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.1% |
| Waverley 003B | 1,753 | 178.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 66.2% |
| Waverley 003C | 1,406 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 75.9% |
| Waverley 003D | 2,061 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.8% |
| Waverley 003E | 1,611 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.1% |
| Waverley 004A | 1,542 | 23.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 46.2% |
| Waverley 004B | 1,487 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 72.2% |
| Waverley 004C | 1,664 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.8% |
| Waverley 004D | 1,721 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 35.3% |
| Waverley 006A | 1,463 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 64.4% |
| Waverley 006B | 1,452 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.6% |
| Waverley 006C | 1,576 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Waverley 006D | 1,313 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Waverley 006E | 1,374 | 15.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 68.6% |
Your MP
- Gregory StaffordConservativeMP for Farnham and Bordon
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 Farnham2
Middle areas in Farnham3
Towns near Farnham6
Farnham in brief
Farnham is a town in Waverley, South East.
About 21,498 people lived in Farnham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £533,500 in 2025 across 332 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Farnham was £533,500 in 2025.
Farnham had 20,499 usual residents at the census.
About 38% of people in Farnham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Farnham, 75.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.