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Horsham

Town

Town in Horsham, South East.

Horsham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Horsham 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Horsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£400,000
Joint 186th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
50,211
218th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
90.3%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Horsham compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

HorshamMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Horsham is £400,000.
£400,000joint 97th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Horsham is 50,211.
50,21136th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Horsham is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Horsham is 90.3%.
90.3%joint 103rd lowest

Is Horsham safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Horsham at a rate of 77.6 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, 391 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Horsham.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,175), anti-social behaviour (1,031) and shoplifting (678).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Horsham was 74.3 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 Horsham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Horsham has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 15 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Horsham

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Horsham 001A1,52588.3 per 1,000990.2%
Horsham 001B1,55762.9 per 1,000475.5%
Horsham 001C1,55241.1 per 1,000897.4%
Horsham 002A1,90052.4 per 1,0001099.0%
Horsham 002B1,38716.1 per 1,0001099.8%
Horsham 002C1,44032.0 per 1,00010100.0%
Horsham 002D1,19248.7 per 1,000896.5%
Horsham 002E1,05712.6 per 1,0001092.9%
Horsham 002F1,29835.8 per 1,0001080.1%
Horsham 002G1,58321.0 per 1,0001097.2%
Horsham 002H1,48623.9 per 1,0001097.6%
Horsham 003B1,55840.5 per 1,000988.3%
Horsham 003C1,58974.7 per 1,000792.9%
Horsham 003E1,48821.9 per 1,0001095.2%
Horsham 004A1,62029.9 per 1,00010100.0%
Horsham 004B1,62130.7 per 1,0009100.0%
Horsham 004C1,48064.1 per 1,000899.6%
Horsham 004D1,64849.4 per 1,000797.9%
Horsham 004E1,90349.1 per 1,0001093.0%
Horsham 006B1,68957.3 per 1,0005100.0%
Horsham 006C1,946161.1 per 1,000680.9%
Horsham 006D1,93064.3 per 1,000794.7%
Horsham 006E1,37337.9 per 1,000795.0%
Horsham 006F1,78289.0 per 1,0001083.6%
Horsham 006G1,171290.5 per 1,000845.8%
Horsham 006H1,394759.1 per 1,000343.3%
Horsham 007C1,75936.6 per 1,0001096.3%
Horsham 007D1,53336.3 per 1,00010100.0%
Horsham 007G1,75139.8 per 1,000999.2%
Horsham 007I1,64072.5 per 1,000697.4%
Horsham 008A2,02673.4 per 1,0001095.9%
Horsham 008B1,82229.1 per 1,0001096.1%

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Council1

Postcode districts covering Horsham2

Middle areas in Horsham6

Towns near Horsham6

Horsham in brief

Horsham is a town in Horsham, South East.

About 51,722 people lived in Horsham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £400,000 in 2025 across 873 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Horsham was £400,000 in 2025.

Horsham had 50,211 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Horsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Horsham, 90.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.