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Maidenhead

Town

Town in Windsor and Maidenhead, South East.

Maidenhead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maidenhead 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 93% of people in Maidenhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£490,000
Joint 84th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
67,391
163rd most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
93%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
89.1%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Maidenhead compares

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

MaidenheadMiddle
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. Maidenhead is £490,000.
£490,000joint 44th 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. Maidenhead is 67,391.
67,39125th 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%. Maidenhead is 93.0%.
93%50th most 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%. Maidenhead is 89.1%.
89.1%joint 89th lowest

Is Maidenhead safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maidenhead at a rate of 61.2 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, 367 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maidenhead.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,660), other crime (898) and anti-social behaviour (458).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maidenhead was 67.6 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 Maidenhead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maidenhead has no single figure. Of its 41 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 21 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Maidenhead

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Windsor and Maidenhead 001A1,56314.0 per 1,00010100.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 001B1,36294.8 per 1,000996.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 001C1,63451.6 per 1,000898.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 001D1,11423.6 per 1,0001092.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 003A1,82043.5 per 1,0001099.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 003B1,50266.2 per 1,000598.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 003C1,59369.2 per 1,000797.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead 003D1,67161.7 per 1,000598.7%
Windsor and Maidenhead 004A1,90321.8 per 1,0001092.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead 004B1,69475.0 per 1,0001091.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead 004C1,34026.2 per 1,0001086.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 004D2,32746.5 per 1,0001082.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 004E2,04963.4 per 1,0001079.7%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005A1,79457.3 per 1,0001087.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005B1,69938.7 per 1,000999.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005C2,16050.5 per 1,000598.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005D1,92995.1 per 1,000757.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005E2,34844.9 per 1,000899.7%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005G1,335136.7 per 1,000580.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 005H1,802471.4 per 1,000573.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006A1,82125.6 per 1,0001095.7%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006B1,61429.8 per 1,0001099.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006C1,63736.9 per 1,0001093.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006D1,42413.8 per 1,0001099.8%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006E1,64745.6 per 1,0001099.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 006F1,65731.7 per 1,0001096.6%
Windsor and Maidenhead 007A1,35042.1 per 1,0001080.6%
Windsor and Maidenhead 007B1,81930.7 per 1,000897.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 007C1,60353.9 per 1,000994.6%
Windsor and Maidenhead 007D1,82479.4 per 1,000493.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 007E1,58878.3 per 1,000696.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008A1,49025.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008B1,56076.0 per 1,000599.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008C1,81532.2 per 1,00010100.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008D1,37322.0 per 1,0001096.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008E1,37134.7 per 1,0001095.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead 008F1,55446.4 per 1,000570.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead 009A1,61131.3 per 1,000926.9%
Windsor and Maidenhead 009B1,61658.1 per 1,000980.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead 009C1,34415.2 per 1,0001074.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead 009D1,22643.6 per 1,000780.6%

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Postcode districts covering Maidenhead1

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Towns near Maidenhead6

Maidenhead in brief

Maidenhead is a town in Windsor and Maidenhead, South East.

About 70,665 people lived in Maidenhead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £490,000 in 2025 across 963 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Maidenhead was £490,000 in 2025.

Maidenhead had 67,391 usual residents at the census.

About 93% of people in Maidenhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Maidenhead, 89.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.