Ross-on-Wye
TownTown in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
Ross-on-Wye is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ross-on-Wye 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 Ross-on-Wye live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ross-on-Wye compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ross-on-Wye safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ross-on-Wye at a rate of 73.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ross-on-Wye.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (290), shoplifting (148) and other crime (130).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ross-on-Wye was 73.1 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 Ross-on-Wye, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ross-on-Wye has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 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 Ross-on-Wye
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herefordshire 022A | 1,852 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.3% |
| Herefordshire 022B | 1,757 | 177.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.2% |
| Herefordshire 022C | 1,743 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Herefordshire 022D | 1,579 | 103.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Herefordshire 022E | 1,476 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Herefordshire 022F | 1,203 | 87.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.1% |
| Herefordshire 022G | 1,380 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.3% |
Your MP
- Jesse NormanConservativeMP for Hereford and South Herefordshire
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 Ross-on-Wye1
Middle areas in Ross-on-Wye1
Towns near Ross-on-Wye6
Ross-on-Wye in brief
Ross-on-Wye is a town in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
About 11,369 people lived in Ross-on-Wye in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £289,000 in 2025 across 213 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ross-on-Wye was £289,000 in 2025.
Ross-on-Wye had 10,993 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ross-on-Wye live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ross-on-Wye, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.