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Rickmansworth

Town

Town in Three Rivers, East of England.

Rickmansworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rickmansworth 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 75% of people in Rickmansworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£610,000
32nd most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
26,290
426th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
75%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
94.3%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Rickmansworth compares

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

RickmansworthMiddle
Median sale price130 towns, East of England · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East of England130 areas from £146,000 to £1,082,500. The middle area is £346,125. Rickmansworth is £610,000.
£610,0007th most expensive
Population130 towns, East of England · 2021
Population: every town in East of England130 areas from 7,522 to 233,524. The middle area is 19,408. Rickmansworth is 26,290.
26,29048th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares130 towns, East of England · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East of England130 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 0.0%. Rickmansworth is 75.0%.
75%18th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East of England130 areas from 45.6% to 98.3%. The middle area is 92.4%. Rickmansworth is 94.3%.
94.3%joint 42nd highest

Is Rickmansworth safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rickmansworth at a rate of 73.8 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 174 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rickmansworth.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (664), anti-social behaviour (409) and other crime (380).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rickmansworth was 69.1 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 Rickmansworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rickmansworth has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Rickmansworth

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Three Rivers 003A1,63784.2 per 1,000897.1%
Three Rivers 003B2,18726.1 per 1,0001097.9%
Three Rivers 004D1,93496.7 per 1,0001074.1%
Three Rivers 006A1,66165.0 per 1,000998.5%
Three Rivers 006B1,34744.1 per 1,0001099.5%
Three Rivers 006C1,30118.5 per 1,0001095.3%
Three Rivers 006D1,39920.3 per 1,0001099.8%
Three Rivers 006E2,35848.0 per 1,0001092.9%
Three Rivers 006F1,64339.4 per 1,0001097.7%
Three Rivers 007A1,89344.9 per 1,0009100.0%
Three Rivers 007C1,577200.0 per 1,000691.7%
Three Rivers 007D1,51965.7 per 1,000993.7%
Three Rivers 009A1,41086.1 per 1,000798.8%
Three Rivers 009B1,388228.3 per 1,000597.3%
Three Rivers 011D1,44894.8 per 1,000986.3%

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Postcode districts covering Rickmansworth1

Middle areas in Rickmansworth3

Towns near Rickmansworth6

Rickmansworth in brief

Rickmansworth is a town in Three Rivers, East of England.

About 26,467 people lived in Rickmansworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £610,000 in 2025 across 395 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Rickmansworth was £610,000 in 2025.

Rickmansworth had 26,290 usual residents at the census.

About 75% of people in Rickmansworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Rickmansworth, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.