Hedge End
TownTown in Eastleigh, South East.
Hedge End is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hedge End 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 0% of people in Hedge End live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hedge End compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hedge End safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hedge End at a rate of 58.1 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, 131 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hedge End.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (434), shoplifting (306) and other crime (229).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hedge End was 59.8 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 Hedge End, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hedge End has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hedge End
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastleigh 010B | 1,502 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.6% |
| Eastleigh 010D | 1,454 | 15.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Eastleigh 010E | 1,744 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.6% |
| Eastleigh 010G | 1,984 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Eastleigh 010H | 1,487 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.9% |
| Eastleigh 011B | 1,243 | 136.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 73.9% |
| Eastleigh 011C | 1,534 | 126.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 81.9% |
| Eastleigh 011D | 1,058 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Eastleigh 011E | 1,416 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
| Eastleigh 012A | 1,764 | 17.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Eastleigh 012B | 1,500 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.1% |
| Eastleigh 012C | 1,585 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 76.2% |
| Eastleigh 012D | 1,982 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Eastleigh 012E | 1,742 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.7% |
| Eastleigh 012F | 1,286 | 179.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Paul HolmesConservativeMP for Hamble Valley
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 Hedge End1
Middle areas in Hedge End3
Towns near Hedge End6
Hedge End in brief
Hedge End is a town in Eastleigh, South East.
About 23,488 people lived in Hedge End in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £336,250 in 2025 across 358 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 58.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hedge End was £336,250 in 2025.
Hedge End had 23,195 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hedge End live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hedge End, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.