Hatfield
TownTown in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England.
Hatfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hatfield 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 64% of people in Hatfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hatfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hatfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hatfield at a rate of 127.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 473 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hatfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,908), anti-social behaviour (1,024) and other crime (960).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hatfield was 128.2 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 Hatfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hatfield has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hatfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welwyn Hatfield 002E | 1,791 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 002F | 1,548 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010A | 1,782 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.4% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010B | 1,675 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010D | 2,390 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 63.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010E | 2,946 | 267.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 51.5% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010F | 1,516 | 172.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 010G | 2,247 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 011A | 1,787 | 151.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 011C | 1,885 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.3% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 011D | 1,866 | 92.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 012A | 1,626 | 389.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 72.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 012B | 2,371 | 220.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.3% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 012C | 1,904 | 118.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 012D | 2,331 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.3% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 013A | 1,883 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 013B | 1,375 | 102.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.2% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 013C | 2,642 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 013D | 2,189 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 013E | 2,315 | 100.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.1% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 017A | 1,515 | 127.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.5% |
Your MP
- Andrew LewinLabourMP for Welwyn Hatfield
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 Hatfield3
Middle areas in Hatfield4
Towns near Hatfield6
Hatfield in brief
Hatfield is a town in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England.
About 43,165 people lived in Hatfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £371,000 in 2025 across 373 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 127.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hatfield was £371,000 in 2025.
Hatfield had 41,561 usual residents at the census.
About 64% of people in Hatfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hatfield, 84.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.