Watford
TownTown in Watford and Three Rivers, East of England.
Watford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Watford 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 84% of people in Watford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Watford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Watford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Watford at a rate of 103.8 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, 1,341 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Watford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,760), anti-social behaviour (2,914) and other crime (2,441).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Watford was 100.8 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 Watford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Watford has no single figure. Of its 74 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 15 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Watford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers 002C | 2,104 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.2% |
| Three Rivers 002E | 1,784 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Three Rivers 002F | 1,246 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Three Rivers 002G | 2,440 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.7% |
| Three Rivers 008A | 2,417 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Three Rivers 008B | 1,682 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.5% |
| Three Rivers 008C | 1,848 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Three Rivers 008D | 1,618 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Three Rivers 010A | 1,764 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Three Rivers 010B | 1,848 | 170.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.2% |
| Three Rivers 010C | 1,833 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Three Rivers 010D | 1,503 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Three Rivers 012A | 2,307 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Three Rivers 012B | 1,706 | 74.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Three Rivers 012C | 2,128 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.2% |
| Three Rivers 012D | 1,737 | 133.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Watford 001A | 2,165 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.7% |
| Watford 001B | 2,038 | 190.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.8% |
| Watford 001C | 1,565 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| Watford 001D | 1,938 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Watford 002A | 1,332 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Watford 002B | 1,503 | 85.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.1% |
| Watford 002C | 1,337 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Watford 002D | 1,671 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.6% |
| Watford 002E | 1,410 | 15.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Watford 003A | 1,354 | 90.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Watford 003B | 1,321 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Watford 003C | 2,205 | 164.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| Watford 003D | 1,795 | 112.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.1% |
| Watford 003E | 1,724 | 132.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Watford 004A | 1,892 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| Watford 004B | 1,485 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Watford 004C | 1,729 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| Watford 004D | 1,845 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.1% |
| Watford 004E | 1,714 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Watford 005A | 1,678 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.9% |
| Watford 005B | 1,303 | 153.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Watford 005C | 1,592 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.4% |
| Watford 005D | 1,600 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Watford 006A | 2,254 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Watford 006B | 2,619 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Watford 006C | 1,837 | 148.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Watford 006D | 1,994 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.1% |
| Watford 007A | 2,133 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.8% |
| Watford 007C | 2,239 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| Watford 007D | 1,674 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Watford 007E | 1,429 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.5% |
| Watford 007F | 1,596 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| Watford 008A | 2,909 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.6% |
| Watford 008B | 1,793 | 49.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Watford 008C | 1,679 | 169.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| Watford 008D | 1,847 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Watford 009B | 2,093 | 361.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.0% |
| Watford 009D | 2,664 | 379.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.0% |
| Watford 009E | 1,297 | 188.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.5% |
| Watford 009F | 1,313 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.3% |
| Watford 009G | 1,066 | 442.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.6% |
| Watford 009H | 1,668 | 211.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.7% |
| Watford 009I | 1,311 | 548.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 73.3% |
| Watford 010A | 1,757 | 137.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Watford 010B | 1,897 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Watford 010C | 2,094 | 218.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Watford 010D | 1,742 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Watford 010E | 1,670 | 59.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Watford 011A | 1,827 | 96.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| Watford 011B | 1,735 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Watford 011C | 1,995 | 94.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| Watford 011D | 1,668 | 156.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.5% |
| Watford 011F | 1,833 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.2% |
| Watford 011G | 1,238 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.5% |
| Watford 012A | 1,659 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Watford 012B | 1,784 | 72.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Watford 012C | 1,963 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Watford 012D | 1,773 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Matt TurmaineLabourMP for Watford
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Councils Watford sits in2
Postcode districts covering Watford6
Middle areas in Watford16
Towns near Watford6
Watford in brief
Watford is a town in Watford and Three Rivers, East of England.
About 137,901 people lived in Watford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 1,399 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Watford was £435,000 in 2025.
Watford had 131,336 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Watford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Watford, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.