Poole
TownTown in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West.
Poole is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Poole 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 Poole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Poole compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Poole safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Poole at a rate of 74.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 1,096 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Poole.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,421), anti-social behaviour (2,843) and other crime (1,389).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Poole was 75.5 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 Poole, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Poole has no single figure. Of its 88 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Poole
Your MP
- Neil Duncan-JordanLabourMP for Poole
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 Poole7
Middle areas in Poole16
Towns near Poole6
Poole in brief
Poole is a town in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West.
About 143,434 people lived in Poole in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £340,000 in 2025 across 2,142 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Poole was £340,000 in 2025.
Poole had 141,009 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Poole live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Poole, 87.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.