Guildford
TownTown in Guildford, South East.
Guildford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Guildford 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 45% of people in Guildford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Guildford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Guildford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Guildford at a rate of 103.8 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, 727 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Guildford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,029), other crime (1,839) and anti-social behaviour (1,153).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Guildford was 113.4 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 Guildford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Guildford has no single figure. Of its 43 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Guildford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford 005B | 1,563 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 75.8% |
| Guildford 005C | 1,669 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 71.3% |
| Guildford 005E | 1,375 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.1% |
| Guildford 006A | 1,780 | 69.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Guildford 006B | 1,587 | 144.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Guildford 006C | 2,154 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.7% |
| Guildford 006D | 2,482 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Guildford 007A | 1,773 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Guildford 007B | 1,413 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Guildford 007C | 1,478 | 107.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Guildford 007D | 1,713 | 119.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.1% |
| Guildford 008A | 1,587 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Guildford 008B | 1,986 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.8% |
| Guildford 008C | 1,613 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| Guildford 008D | 1,450 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| Guildford 008E | 1,737 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Guildford 009A | 1,572 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Guildford 009B | 1,293 | 100.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Guildford 009C | 1,893 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Guildford 009D | 1,385 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Guildford 011A | 2,266 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.7% |
| Guildford 011B | 2,357 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| Guildford 011C | 1,731 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Guildford 011D | 1,609 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Guildford 011E | 1,656 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.0% |
| Guildford 012A | 4,674 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 40.8% |
| Guildford 012B | 1,786 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| Guildford 012C | 1,707 | 134.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| Guildford 012D | 1,589 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Guildford 013A | 1,823 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.8% |
| Guildford 013B | 2,601 | 149.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Guildford 013C | 2,008 | 360.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 68.1% |
| Guildford 013D | 1,492 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.8% |
| Guildford 013E | 1,853 | 506.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 55.2% |
| Guildford 013F | 1,678 | 167.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.6% |
| Guildford 015A | 2,584 | 489.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 61.5% |
| Guildford 015B | 1,725 | 25.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.3% |
| Guildford 015C | 3,206 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 63.8% |
| Guildford 015D | 1,459 | 25.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Guildford 016A | 1,566 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.8% |
| Guildford 016B | 1,353 | 114.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 63.5% |
| Guildford 016C | 1,694 | 16.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.7% |
| Guildford 016D | 1,516 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.0% |
Your MP
- Zöe FranklinLiberal DemocratMP for Guildford
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 Guildford4
Middle areas in Guildford9
Towns near Guildford6
Guildford in brief
Guildford is a town in Guildford, South East.
About 81,920 people lived in Guildford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £485,000 in 2025 across 1,049 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Guildford was £485,000 in 2025.
Guildford had 77,870 usual residents at the census.
About 45% of people in Guildford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Guildford, 86.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.