Hook
TownTown in Hart, South East.
Hook is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hook 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Hook, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Hook compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hook safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hook at a rate of 43.4 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hook.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (159), other crime (61) and vehicle crime (54).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hook was 47.5 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 Hook, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hook has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 9: 2 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 Hook
Your MP
- Alex BrewerLiberal DemocratMP for North East Hampshire
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 Hook1
Middle areas in Hook1
Towns near Hook6
Hook in brief
Hook is a town in Hart, South East.
About 9,556 people lived in Hook in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £445,000 in 2025 across 155 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 43.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hook was £445,000 in 2025.
Hook had 9,062 usual residents at the census.
In Hook, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Hook, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.