Royston
TownTown in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
Royston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Royston 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 Royston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Royston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Royston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Royston at a rate of 56.9 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, 120 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Royston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (368), anti-social behaviour (249) and other crime (139).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Royston was 57.5 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 Royston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Royston has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Royston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Hertfordshire 001A | 2,372 | 119.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 001B | 1,364 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| North Hertfordshire 001C | 2,076 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| North Hertfordshire 002A | 1,564 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.8% |
| North Hertfordshire 002B | 2,043 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.8% |
| North Hertfordshire 002C | 2,333 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.7% |
| North Hertfordshire 002D | 2,555 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| North Hertfordshire 002E | 1,792 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.3% |
| North Hertfordshire 002F | 1,343 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Chris HinchliffLabourMP for North East Hertfordshire
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 Royston1
Middle areas in Royston2
Towns near Royston6
Royston in brief
Royston is a town in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 18,534 people lived in Royston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £380,000 in 2025 across 341 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Royston was £380,000 in 2025.
Royston had 17,443 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Royston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Royston, 89.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.