Sandy
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Sandy is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sandy 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 Sandy live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sandy compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sandy safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sandy at a rate of 76.1 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, 98 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sandy.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (317), anti-social behaviour (177) and other crime (149).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sandy was 72.6 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 Sandy, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sandy has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 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 Sandy
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 001A | 1,609 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 001B | 1,669 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 001C | 2,471 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.3% |
| Central Bedfordshire 002A | 1,490 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 002B | 1,629 | 145.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 002D | 1,821 | 100.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.5% |
Your MP
- Richard FullerConservativeMP for North Bedfordshire
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 Sandy1
Middle areas in Sandy2
Towns near Sandy6
Sandy in brief
Sandy is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 11,362 people lived in Sandy in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £311,750 in 2025 across 168 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sandy was £311,750 in 2025.
Sandy had 11,375 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Sandy live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sandy, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.