Hemel Hempstead
TownTown in Dacorum, East of England.
Hemel Hempstead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hemel Hempstead 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 100% of people in Hemel Hempstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hemel Hempstead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hemel Hempstead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hemel Hempstead at a rate of 102.4 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, 941 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hemel Hempstead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,487), anti-social behaviour (2,478) and other crime (1,583).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hemel Hempstead was 111.1 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 Hemel Hempstead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hemel Hempstead has no single figure. Of its 58 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hemel Hempstead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dacorum 005A | 1,682 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| Dacorum 005B | 1,476 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.8% |
| Dacorum 005C | 1,238 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 005D | 1,436 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.3% |
| Dacorum 007A | 1,674 | 135.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.6% |
| Dacorum 007B | 1,437 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Dacorum 007C | 1,682 | 100.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Dacorum 007D | 1,592 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Dacorum 007E | 1,397 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 008A | 1,782 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Dacorum 008B | 1,724 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Dacorum 008C | 1,508 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.0% |
| Dacorum 008D | 1,352 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Dacorum 008E | 1,570 | 141.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Dacorum 010A | 2,123 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Dacorum 010B | 1,721 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| Dacorum 010C | 1,670 | 241.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.2% |
| Dacorum 011A | 1,657 | 118.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.8% |
| Dacorum 011B | 1,806 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Dacorum 011C | 1,455 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| Dacorum 011D | 1,853 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| Dacorum 013A | 1,984 | 203.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.3% |
| Dacorum 013B | 2,824 | 161.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.9% |
| Dacorum 013C | 1,438 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.8% |
| Dacorum 013D | 1,553 | 169.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.0% |
| Dacorum 015A | 1,900 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Dacorum 015B | 1,823 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.5% |
| Dacorum 015C | 1,707 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Dacorum 015E | 2,080 | 200.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| Dacorum 015F | 1,522 | 519.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.3% |
| Dacorum 015G | 1,388 | 202.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.1% |
| Dacorum 015H | 1,195 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| Dacorum 016A | 1,481 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.8% |
| Dacorum 016B | 1,962 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Dacorum 016C | 1,581 | 49.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 017A | 1,939 | 202.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.4% |
| Dacorum 017B | 1,317 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Dacorum 017C | 1,590 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 017D | 1,256 | 14.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 017E | 1,324 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Dacorum 018B | 2,454 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.7% |
| Dacorum 018C | 1,626 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Dacorum 018D | 1,170 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Dacorum 018E | 1,368 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Dacorum 018F | 1,537 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.8% |
| Dacorum 018G | 1,401 | 94.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 72.2% |
| Dacorum 018H | 2,109 | 152.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.1% |
| Dacorum 019A | 1,466 | 72.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Dacorum 019B | 1,359 | 163.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Dacorum 019C | 1,519 | 87.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| Dacorum 019D | 1,657 | 41.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Dacorum 020A | 1,691 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Dacorum 020B | 1,562 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Dacorum 020C | 1,850 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dacorum 020D | 1,558 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Dacorum 020E | 2,371 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Dacorum 020F | 1,410 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.2% |
| Dacorum 021F | 1,771 | 63.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 69.0% |
Your MP
- David TaylorLabourMP for Hemel Hempstead
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 Hemel Hempstead3
Middle areas in Hemel Hempstead12
Towns near Hemel Hempstead6
Hemel Hempstead in brief
Hemel Hempstead is a town in Dacorum, East of England.
About 100,893 people lived in Hemel Hempstead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £410,000 in 2025 across 1,206 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 102.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hemel Hempstead was £410,000 in 2025.
Hemel Hempstead had 95,995 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Hemel Hempstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hemel Hempstead, 93.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.