Petersfield
TownTown in East Hampshire, South East.
Petersfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Petersfield 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 0% of people in Petersfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Petersfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Petersfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Petersfield at a rate of 64.4 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, 81 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Petersfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (391), other crime (174) and anti-social behaviour (119).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Petersfield was 64.9 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 Petersfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Petersfield has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Petersfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hampshire 011C | 1,209 | 65.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
| East Hampshire 011D | 2,221 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| East Hampshire 011E | 2,615 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.1% |
| East Hampshire 012A | 1,196 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% |
| East Hampshire 012B | 1,438 | 91.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.2% |
| East Hampshire 012C | 2,300 | 65.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| East Hampshire 012D | 2,257 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.8% |
| East Hampshire 012F | 1,108 | 202.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 81.4% |
| East Hampshire 012G | 1,323 | 96.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
Your MP
- Damian HindsConservativeMP for 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 Petersfield2
Middle areas in Petersfield2
Towns near Petersfield6
Petersfield in brief
Petersfield is a town in East Hampshire, South East.
About 15,308 people lived in Petersfield 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 241 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Petersfield was £400,000 in 2025.
Petersfield had 14,994 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Petersfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Petersfield, 90.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.