Thatcham
TownTown in West Berkshire, South East.
Thatcham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thatcham 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 26% of people in Thatcham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thatcham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thatcham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thatcham at a rate of 66.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 135 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thatcham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (763), anti-social behaviour (260) and other crime (259).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thatcham was 71.2 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 Thatcham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thatcham has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thatcham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Berkshire 011F | 2,855 | 122.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.4% |
| West Berkshire 014A | 1,404 | 15.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| West Berkshire 014B | 1,961 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| West Berkshire 014C | 1,350 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| West Berkshire 014D | 2,023 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.0% |
| West Berkshire 014E | 1,407 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.3% |
| West Berkshire 016A | 1,393 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| West Berkshire 016B | 1,533 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| West Berkshire 016C | 1,556 | 166.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.0% |
| West Berkshire 016D | 1,718 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| West Berkshire 016E | 1,341 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| West Berkshire 017A | 1,262 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| West Berkshire 017B | 1,503 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| West Berkshire 017C | 2,385 | 81.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.9% |
| West Berkshire 017D | 1,769 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.8% |
Your MP
- Mr Lee DillonLiberal DemocratMP for Newbury
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 Thatcham2
Middle areas in Thatcham3
Towns near Thatcham6
Thatcham in brief
Thatcham is a town in West Berkshire, South East.
About 25,595 people lived in Thatcham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £355,000 in 2025 across 404 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thatcham was £355,000 in 2025.
Thatcham had 25,537 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Thatcham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thatcham, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.