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Gerrards Cross

Town

Town in Buckinghamshire, South East.

Gerrards Cross is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gerrards Cross 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 91% of people in Gerrards Cross live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£1,300,000
Most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
8,117
Joint 71st least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
91%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Gerrards Cross compares

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

Gerrards CrossMiddle
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. Gerrards Cross is £1,300,000.
£1,300,000most 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. Gerrards Cross is 8,117.
8,11715th least 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%. Gerrards Cross is 91.0%.
91%joint 53rd 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%. Gerrards Cross is 96.0%.
96.0%joint 31st highest

Is Gerrards Cross safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gerrards Cross at a rate of 50.3 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, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gerrards Cross.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (128), other crime (78) and anti-social behaviour (46).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gerrards Cross was 46.5 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 Gerrards Cross, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

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

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

Neighbourhoods in Gerrards Cross

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Buckinghamshire 058A2,08652.0 per 1,000897.1%
Buckinghamshire 058B1,67031.8 per 1,0001098.0%
Buckinghamshire 058C1,782124.9 per 1,0001098.2%
Buckinghamshire 058D1,61223.5 per 1,000889.3%
Buckinghamshire 058E2,11120.0 per 1,0001096.0%

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 Gerrards Cross1

Middle areas in Gerrards Cross1

Towns near Gerrards Cross6

Gerrards Cross in brief

Gerrards Cross is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East.

About 8,413 people lived in Gerrards Cross in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £1,300,000 in 2025 across 110 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Gerrards Cross was £1,300,000 in 2025.

Gerrards Cross had 8,117 usual residents at the census.

About 91% of people in Gerrards Cross live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Gerrards Cross, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.