Ware
TownTown in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
Ware is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ware 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Ware, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Ware compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ware safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ware at a rate of 67.8 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, 158 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ware.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (532), anti-social behaviour (301) and other crime (185).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ware was 66.6 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 Ware, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ware has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Ware
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hertfordshire 012A | 2,071 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 012B | 1,505 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 012C | 2,130 | 155.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.3% |
| East Hertfordshire 012D | 2,164 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 012E | 1,748 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| East Hertfordshire 012F | 1,619 | 21.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.7% |
| East Hertfordshire 013A | 1,621 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 013B | 1,638 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.5% |
| East Hertfordshire 013C | 1,670 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| East Hertfordshire 013D | 1,919 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| East Hertfordshire 013E | 1,541 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.0% |
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.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Ware1
Middle areas in Ware2
Towns near Ware6
Ware in brief
Ware is a town in East Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 20,115 people lived in Ware in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £415,000 in 2025 across 347 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ware was £415,000 in 2025.
Ware had 19,631 usual residents at the census.
In Ware, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ware, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.