Hertford
TownTown in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
Hertford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hertford 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 3% of people in Hertford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hertford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hertford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hertford at a rate of 82.7 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, 224 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hertford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (843), anti-social behaviour (503) and other crime (402).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hertford was 84.3 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 Hertford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hertford has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 4 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 Hertford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 014A | 1,773 | 82.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 014B | 1,419 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 014C | 1,367 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 014D | 1,769 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.9% |
| East Hertfordshire 014E | 1,571 | 35.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 015A | 1,564 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 015B | 1,684 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 015C | 1,369 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| East Hertfordshire 015D | 1,296 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 016A | 1,920 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 016B | 2,424 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 016C | 1,632 | 147.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 017A | 1,462 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 017B | 1,720 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.3% |
| East Hertfordshire 017C | 2,185 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 017E | 1,596 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 017F | 1,366 | 167.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| East Hertfordshire 017G | 1,303 | 374.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.9% |
Your MP
- Josh DeanLabourMP for Hertford and Stortford
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 Hertford2
Middle areas in Hertford4
Towns near Hertford6
Hertford in brief
Hertford is a town in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 30,333 people lived in Hertford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £430,000 in 2025 across 515 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hertford was £430,000 in 2025.
Hertford had 28,807 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in Hertford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hertford, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.