Ringwood
TownTown in New Forest, South East.
Ringwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ringwood 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 Ringwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ringwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ringwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ringwood at a rate of 73.0 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, 98 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ringwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (329), other crime (155) and anti-social behaviour (147).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ringwood was 73.4 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 Ringwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ringwood has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ringwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest 010C | 1,358 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.7% |
| New Forest 010D | 1,710 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.4% |
| New Forest 010E | 1,501 | 16.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 68.1% |
| New Forest 012A | 1,613 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| New Forest 012B | 1,275 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.7% |
| New Forest 012C | 1,918 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.9% |
| New Forest 012D | 1,823 | 198.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 54.0% |
| New Forest 012E | 1,477 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 72.3% |
Your MP
- Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeMP for New Forest West
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 Ringwood1
Middle areas in Ringwood2
Towns near Ringwood6
Ringwood in brief
Ringwood is a town in New Forest, South East.
About 13,012 people lived in Ringwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £383,000 in 2025 across 197 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ringwood was £383,000 in 2025.
Ringwood had 12,789 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ringwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ringwood, 77.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.