Locks Heath
TownTown in Fareham, South East.
Locks Heath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Locks Heath 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 1% of people in Locks Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Locks Heath compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Locks Heath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Locks Heath at a rate of 53.3 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, 164 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Locks Heath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (783), other crime (383) and anti-social behaviour (267).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Locks Heath was 49.2 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 Locks Heath, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Locks Heath has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Locks Heath
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fareham 001A | 2,215 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 001D | 1,712 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% |
| Fareham 002A | 1,311 | 9.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Fareham 002B | 1,144 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 002C | 2,287 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| Fareham 002D | 1,741 | 90.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.7% |
| Fareham 002E | 1,366 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.7% |
| Fareham 002F | 1,249 | 129.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Fareham 005A | 1,408 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 005B | 1,534 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Fareham 005C | 1,364 | 10.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 005D | 1,591 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 005E | 1,680 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Fareham 006A | 1,669 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Fareham 006B | 1,775 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Fareham 006C | 1,861 | 46.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Fareham 006D | 1,597 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.8% |
| Fareham 006E | 1,940 | 63.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.5% |
| Fareham 007A | 1,365 | 85.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.3% |
| Fareham 007B | 1,573 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Fareham 007C | 1,420 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Fareham 007D | 2,160 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Fareham 007E | 1,500 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
Your MP
- Paul HolmesConservativeMP for Hamble Valley
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 Locks Heath3
Middle areas in Locks Heath4
Towns near Locks Heath6
Locks Heath in brief
Locks Heath is a town in Fareham, South East.
About 36,068 people lived in Locks Heath 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 662 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Locks Heath was £380,000 in 2025.
Locks Heath had 35,744 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Locks Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Locks Heath, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.