Hitchin
TownTown in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
Hitchin is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hitchin 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 94% of people in Hitchin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hitchin compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hitchin safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hitchin at a rate of 69.9 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, 268 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hitchin.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (833), anti-social behaviour (586) and other crime (420).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hitchin was 67.2 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 Hitchin, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hitchin has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hitchin
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Hertfordshire 010A | 2,205 | 114.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| North Hertfordshire 010B | 1,561 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| North Hertfordshire 010C | 1,571 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| North Hertfordshire 010D | 1,396 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.7% |
| North Hertfordshire 010E | 1,426 | 117.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 76.9% |
| North Hertfordshire 011A | 1,562 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| North Hertfordshire 011B | 1,743 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| North Hertfordshire 011C | 1,699 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.5% |
| North Hertfordshire 011D | 1,360 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 011E | 1,345 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 012A | 1,662 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 012B | 1,830 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| North Hertfordshire 012C | 1,620 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| North Hertfordshire 012D | 2,062 | 14.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.2% |
| North Hertfordshire 012E | 1,841 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.6% |
| North Hertfordshire 012F | 2,470 | 260.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.1% |
| North Hertfordshire 013A | 1,754 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 013B | 1,480 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 013C | 1,607 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| North Hertfordshire 013D | 1,669 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.6% |
| North Hertfordshire 013E | 1,361 | 29.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
Your MP
- Alistair StrathernLabourMP for Hitchin
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 Hitchin2
Middle areas in Hitchin4
Towns near Hitchin6
Hitchin in brief
Hitchin is a town in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 36,223 people lived in Hitchin in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £448,750 in 2025 across 576 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hitchin was £448,750 in 2025.
Hitchin had 35,220 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Hitchin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hitchin, 93.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.