Sawbridgeworth
TownTown in East Hertfordshire and Epping Forest, East of England.
Sawbridgeworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sawbridgeworth 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 23% of people in Sawbridgeworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sawbridgeworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sawbridgeworth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sawbridgeworth at a rate of 52.9 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, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sawbridgeworth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (241), anti-social behaviour (118) and other crime (94).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sawbridgeworth was 60.2 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 Sawbridgeworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sawbridgeworth has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sawbridgeworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 011A | 2,183 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.8% |
| East Hertfordshire 011B | 1,667 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 70.0% |
| East Hertfordshire 011C | 1,572 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.6% |
| East Hertfordshire 011D | 1,731 | 55.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.3% |
| East Hertfordshire 011E | 1,591 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.1% |
| Epping Forest 001B | 2,173 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.0% |
Your MP
- Josh DeanLabourMP for Hertford and Stortford
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Sawbridgeworth sits in2
Postcode districts covering Sawbridgeworth1
Middle areas in Sawbridgeworth1
Towns near Sawbridgeworth6
Sawbridgeworth in brief
Sawbridgeworth is a town in East Hertfordshire and Epping Forest, East of England.
About 11,237 people lived in Sawbridgeworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £426,000 in 2025 across 197 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 52.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sawbridgeworth was £426,000 in 2025.
Sawbridgeworth had 10,471 usual residents at the census.
About 23% of people in Sawbridgeworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sawbridgeworth, 85.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.