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Henley-on-Thames

Town

Town in South Oxfordshire, South East.

Henley-on-Thames is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Henley-on-Thames 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Henley-on-Thames live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£650,000
Joint 22nd most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
11,786
340th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
95.6%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Henley-on-Thames compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Henley-on-ThamesMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Henley-on-Thames is £650,000.
£650,000joint 11th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Henley-on-Thames is 11,786.
11,78652nd least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Henley-on-Thames is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Henley-on-Thames is 95.6%.
95.6%38th highest

Is Henley-on-Thames safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Henley-on-Thames at a rate of 62.1 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Henley-on-Thames.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (277), other crime (126) and shoplifting (85).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Henley-on-Thames was 58.3 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 Henley-on-Thames, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Henley-on-Thames has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • 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 Henley-on-Thames

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
South Oxfordshire 016A2,16229.5 per 1,000996.6%
South Oxfordshire 016B1,63337.3 per 1,000793.3%
South Oxfordshire 016C2,119137.1 per 1,000996.5%
South Oxfordshire 017A1,59658.5 per 1,000894.3%
South Oxfordshire 017B1,59532.2 per 1,00010100.0%
South Oxfordshire 017C1,72774.5 per 1,000991.7%
South Oxfordshire 017D1,35533.3 per 1,0001098.8%

Your MP

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 Henley-on-Thames1

Middle areas in Henley-on-Thames2

Towns near Henley-on-Thames6

Henley-on-Thames in brief

Henley-on-Thames is a town in South Oxfordshire, South East.

About 12,028 people lived in Henley-on-Thames in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £650,000 in 2025 across 199 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Henley-on-Thames was £650,000 in 2025.

Henley-on-Thames had 11,786 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Henley-on-Thames live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Henley-on-Thames, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.