Haverhill
TownTown in West Suffolk, East of England.
Haverhill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Haverhill 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 2% of people in Haverhill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Haverhill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Haverhill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Haverhill at a rate of 72.8 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, 138 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Haverhill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (964), other crime (404) and criminal damage and arson (195).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Haverhill was 68.4 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 Haverhill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Haverhill has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Haverhill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Suffolk 019A | 1,820 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| West Suffolk 019B | 2,761 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| West Suffolk 019C | 1,332 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| West Suffolk 019D | 1,817 | 113.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.3% |
| West Suffolk 020A | 1,784 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.1% |
| West Suffolk 020B | 2,309 | 69.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.3% |
| West Suffolk 020C | 1,592 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 020D | 1,852 | 101.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| West Suffolk 020E | 2,111 | 134.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.2% |
| West Suffolk 020F | 1,504 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.0% |
| West Suffolk 021A | 2,305 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.6% |
| West Suffolk 021B | 2,245 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| West Suffolk 021C | 1,519 | 51.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 021D | 1,480 | 46.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Nick TimothyConservativeMP for West Suffolk
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 Haverhill1
Middle areas in Haverhill3
Towns near Haverhill6
Haverhill in brief
Haverhill is a town in West Suffolk, East of England.
About 28,032 people lived in Haverhill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £277,450 in 2025 across 398 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Haverhill was £277,450 in 2025.
Haverhill had 26,704 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Haverhill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Haverhill, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.