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Fleet

Town

Town in Hart, South East.

Fleet is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Fleet 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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Gigabit coverage by town

Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026

Under 60%98% or more

In Fleet, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

Median sale price
£475,000
Joint 96th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
37,800
291st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
Gigabit broadband coverage
95.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
1.6%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Fleet compares

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

FleetMiddle
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. Fleet is £475,000.
£475,000joint 50th 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. Fleet is 37,800.
37,80049th most populated
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%. Fleet is 95.9%.
95.9%joint 33rd highest
Claimant rate209 towns, South East · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every town in South East209 areas from 1.2% to 6.8%. The middle area is 2.6%. Fleet is 1.6%.
1.6%joint 7th lowest

Is Fleet safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Fleet at a rate of 45.7 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, 158 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Fleet.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (753), other crime (351) and anti-social behaviour (246).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Fleet was 45.9 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 Fleet, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Fleet has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 18 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Fleet

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Hart 005A2,01066.4 per 1,0001098.0%
Hart 005B2,236136.5 per 1,000899.1%
Hart 005D1,59956.5 per 1,0001094.9%
Hart 005H1,06045.2 per 1,0001099.7%
Hart 007A1,63022.7 per 1,00010100.0%
Hart 007B1,56421.7 per 1,0001099.4%
Hart 007C1,63413.3 per 1,0001099.7%
Hart 007D1,67620.0 per 1,00010100.0%
Hart 007E1,38647.5 per 1,0001098.4%
Hart 008A1,44150.4 per 1,000899.4%
Hart 008B1,348107.8 per 1,000899.3%
Hart 008C1,77645.8 per 1,0001098.1%
Hart 008F1,35731.6 per 1,0001083.8%
Hart 008G1,69573.0 per 1,0001099.7%
Hart 009A1,70122.9 per 1,0001099.3%
Hart 009B1,48646.8 per 1,0001096.4%
Hart 009C1,64723.1 per 1,0001096.6%
Hart 009D1,86135.3 per 1,0001080.9%
Hart 009E1,53147.3 per 1,00010100.0%
Hart 010A1,79830.7 per 1,0001098.9%
Hart 010B1,60315.6 per 1,0001099.4%
Hart 010F2,13926.5 per 1,000998.8%
Hart 010G2,30531.4 per 1,000849.9%

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 Fleet2

Middle areas in Fleet5

Towns near Fleet6

Fleet in brief

Fleet is a town in Hart, South East.

About 38,894 people lived in Fleet in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £475,000 in 2025 across 641 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 45.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Fleet was £475,000 in 2025.

Fleet had 37,800 usual residents at the census.

In Fleet, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Fleet, 1.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.