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Freshwater and Totland

Town

Town in Isle of Wight, South East.

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

Median sale price
£305,000
Joint 404th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
7,523
3rd least 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
86.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Freshwater and Totland compares

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

Freshwater and TotlandMiddle
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. Freshwater and Totland is £305,000.
£305,000joint 26th 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. Freshwater and Totland is 7,523.
7,523least 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%. Freshwater and Totland 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%. Freshwater and Totland is 86.0%.
86.0%63rd lowest

Is Freshwater and Totland safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Freshwater and Totland at a rate of 54.5 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, 47 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Freshwater and Totland.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (192), other crime (82) and anti-social behaviour (54).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Freshwater and Totland was 73.3 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 Freshwater and Totland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Freshwater and Totland has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood

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

Neighbourhoods in Freshwater and Totland

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Isle of Wight 012A1,80062.4 per 1,000394.4%
Isle of Wight 012D1,52858.1 per 1,000292.2%
Isle of Wight 012F1,44844.6 per 1,000574.9%
Isle of Wight 012G1,51351.2 per 1,000487.7%
Isle of Wight 012H2,31459.1 per 1,000682.2%

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 Freshwater and Totland2

Middle areas in Freshwater and Totland1

Towns near Freshwater and Totland6

Freshwater and Totland in brief

Freshwater and Totland is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.

About 7,636 people lived in Freshwater and Totland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £305,000 in 2025 across 135 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Freshwater and Totland was £305,000 in 2025.

Freshwater and Totland had 7,523 usual residents at the census.

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

In Freshwater and Totland, 86.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.