Prestwood and Great Missenden
TownTown in Buckinghamshire, South East.
Prestwood and Great Missenden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prestwood and Great Missenden 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 100% of people in Prestwood and Great Missenden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prestwood and Great Missenden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Prestwood and Great Missenden safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Prestwood and Great Missenden at a rate of 48.6 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, 24 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Prestwood and Great Missenden.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (129), other crime (70) and anti-social behaviour (46).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Prestwood and Great Missenden was 47.5 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 Prestwood and Great Missenden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Prestwood and Great Missenden has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Prestwood and Great Missenden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckinghamshire 031A | 2,325 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 75.8% |
| Buckinghamshire 031C | 1,591 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Buckinghamshire 031D | 1,536 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.0% |
| Buckinghamshire 031E | 1,587 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Buckinghamshire 031F | 1,672 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.6% |
Your MP
- Greg SmithConservativeMP for Mid Buckinghamshire
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 Prestwood and Great Missenden1
Middle areas in Prestwood and Great Missenden1
Towns near Prestwood and Great Missenden6
Prestwood and Great Missenden in brief
Prestwood and Great Missenden is a town in Buckinghamshire, South East.
About 7,516 people lived in Prestwood and Great Missenden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £520,000 in 2025 across 123 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Prestwood and Great Missenden was £520,000 in 2025.
Prestwood and Great Missenden had 7,600 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Prestwood and Great Missenden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prestwood and Great Missenden, 85.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.