Hoddesdon
TownTown in Broxbourne, East of England.
Hoddesdon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hoddesdon 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 47% of people in Hoddesdon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hoddesdon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hoddesdon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hoddesdon at a rate of 86.1 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, 313 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hoddesdon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,237), other crime (729) and anti-social behaviour (711).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hoddesdon was 79.7 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 Hoddesdon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hoddesdon has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hoddesdon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broxbourne 001A | 1,368 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Broxbourne 001B | 2,680 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.4% |
| Broxbourne 001C | 1,625 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Broxbourne 001D | 1,558 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Broxbourne 002A | 1,358 | 128.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% |
| Broxbourne 002B | 1,380 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Broxbourne 002C | 1,318 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Broxbourne 002D | 1,698 | 122.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.8% |
| Broxbourne 002E | 1,704 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Broxbourne 003A | 2,230 | 230.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.8% |
| Broxbourne 003B | 1,992 | 84.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| Broxbourne 003C | 1,949 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.3% |
| Broxbourne 003D | 1,725 | 187.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.3% |
| Broxbourne 004A | 1,560 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Broxbourne 004B | 1,657 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Broxbourne 004C | 1,608 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Broxbourne 004D | 1,576 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.3% |
| Broxbourne 005A | 1,819 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Broxbourne 005B | 1,806 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.2% |
| Broxbourne 005D | 2,175 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.0% |
| Broxbourne 005E | 1,644 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.5% |
| Broxbourne 005F | 1,355 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.6% |
| Broxbourne 005G | 1,557 | 102.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.9% |
Your MP
- Lewis CockingConservativeMP for Broxbourne
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 Hoddesdon2
Middle areas in Hoddesdon5
Towns near Hoddesdon6
Hoddesdon in brief
Hoddesdon is a town in Broxbourne, East of England.
About 41,382 people lived in Hoddesdon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 621 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hoddesdon was £435,000 in 2025.
Hoddesdon had 40,615 usual residents at the census.
About 47% of people in Hoddesdon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hoddesdon, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.