Leatherhead
TownTown in Mole Valley, South East.
Leatherhead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leatherhead 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 91% of people in Leatherhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leatherhead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leatherhead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leatherhead at a rate of 114.8 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, 96 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leatherhead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (465), other crime (282) and anti-social behaviour (233).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leatherhead was 112.3 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 Leatherhead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leatherhead has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leatherhead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mole Valley 003A | 2,275 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.5% |
| Mole Valley 003B | 1,883 | 107.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 65.1% |
| Mole Valley 003C | 1,815 | 214.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.1% |
| Mole Valley 003D | 1,728 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.7% |
| Mole Valley 004B | 1,538 | 118.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 74.6% |
| Mole Valley 004C | 1,695 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 70.9% |
| Mole Valley 004D | 1,152 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 76.0% |
Your MP
- Helen MaguireLiberal DemocratMP for Epsom and Ewell
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 Leatherhead1
Middle areas in Leatherhead2
Towns near Leatherhead6
Leatherhead in brief
Leatherhead is a town in Mole Valley, South East.
About 12,008 people lived in Leatherhead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £380,000 in 2025 across 197 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 114.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leatherhead was £380,000 in 2025.
Leatherhead had 11,482 usual residents at the census.
About 91% of people in Leatherhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leatherhead, 74.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.