Hereford
TownTown in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
Hereford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hereford 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 97% of people in Hereford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hereford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hereford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hereford at a rate of 93.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 624 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hereford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,347), other crime (972) and anti-social behaviour (780).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hereford was 93.4 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 Hereford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hereford has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 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 Hereford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herefordshire 010A | 1,566 | 23.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.1% |
| Herefordshire 010B | 1,577 | 173.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Herefordshire 010C | 1,638 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Herefordshire 010D | 1,416 | 41.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Herefordshire 010E | 1,342 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Herefordshire 010F | 1,397 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 011A | 1,594 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Herefordshire 011B | 1,815 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.1% |
| Herefordshire 011D | 1,397 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.6% |
| Herefordshire 011E | 1,596 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |
| Herefordshire 011F | 1,525 | 44.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.3% |
| Herefordshire 012A | 1,627 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 012B | 1,546 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Herefordshire 012C | 1,832 | 776.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 70.2% |
| Herefordshire 012D | 1,475 | 213.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Herefordshire 012E | 1,475 | 112.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.8% |
| Herefordshire 012F | 1,811 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Herefordshire 013A | 1,769 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Herefordshire 013B | 2,106 | 98.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.9% |
| Herefordshire 013C | 1,569 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 013D | 1,410 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Herefordshire 014A | 1,460 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Herefordshire 014B | 1,525 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Herefordshire 014C | 1,372 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Herefordshire 014D | 1,441 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 015A | 1,422 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Herefordshire 015B | 2,304 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.7% |
| Herefordshire 015C | 1,959 | 86.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.5% |
| Herefordshire 015D | 1,912 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.2% |
| Herefordshire 015E | 1,484 | 227.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Herefordshire 016A | 1,538 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 016B | 1,870 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Herefordshire 017A | 1,542 | 63.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Herefordshire 017B | 1,565 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 017C | 1,443 | 81.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 017D | 1,846 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Herefordshire 017E | 1,466 | 141.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Herefordshire 021D | 1,820 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Jesse NormanConservativeMP for Hereford and South Herefordshire
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 Hereford3
Middle areas in Hereford7
Towns near Hereford6
Hereford in brief
Hereford is a town in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
About 61,232 people lived in Hereford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 921 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hereford was £260,000 in 2025.
Hereford had 60,471 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Hereford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hereford, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.