Saffron Walden
TownTown in Uttlesford, East of England.
Saffron Walden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Saffron Walden 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 6% of people in Saffron Walden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Saffron Walden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Saffron Walden safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Saffron Walden at a rate of 42.8 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Saffron Walden.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (315), other crime (152) and anti-social behaviour (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Saffron Walden was 44.5 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 Saffron Walden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Saffron Walden has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 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 Saffron Walden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttlesford 001B | 1,832 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Uttlesford 001C | 2,057 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.3% |
| Uttlesford 002A | 1,486 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.6% |
| Uttlesford 002B | 1,647 | 118.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 64.0% |
| Uttlesford 002C | 1,507 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.0% |
| Uttlesford 002D | 2,165 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 68.5% |
| Uttlesford 002E | 1,463 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Uttlesford 002F | 2,590 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.1% |
| Uttlesford 002G | 2,269 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 81.8% |
Your MP
- Mrs Kemi BadenochConservativeMP for North West Essex
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 Saffron Walden2
Middle areas in Saffron Walden1
Towns near Saffron Walden6
Saffron Walden in brief
Saffron Walden is a town in Uttlesford, East of England.
About 17,441 people lived in Saffron Walden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £442,500 in 2025 across 320 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 42.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Saffron Walden was £442,500 in 2025.
Saffron Walden had 16,609 usual residents at the census.
About 6% of people in Saffron Walden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Saffron Walden, 83.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.