Welwyn Garden City
TownTown in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England.
Welwyn Garden City is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Welwyn Garden City 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 43% of people in Welwyn Garden City live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Welwyn Garden City compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Welwyn Garden City safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Welwyn Garden City at a rate of 98.8 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, 464 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Welwyn Garden City.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,701), anti-social behaviour (1,298) and other crime (690).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Welwyn Garden City was 100.1 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 Welwyn Garden City, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Welwyn Garden City has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- 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 Welwyn Garden City
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welwyn Hatfield 001D | 1,645 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 72.3% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 003A | 1,349 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 003B | 1,643 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 003C | 1,474 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 003D | 1,505 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 004A | 1,546 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.1% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 004B | 1,320 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 004C | 1,674 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 004D | 1,579 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 005A | 1,592 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 005B | 1,702 | 126.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.1% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 005C | 1,609 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 005D | 1,383 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 006A | 1,687 | 120.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 006B | 1,758 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 006C | 1,857 | 648.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 68.2% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 006D | 1,629 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007B | 1,509 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007C | 1,351 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007D | 1,454 | 118.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007E | 1,491 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.9% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007F | 1,275 | 162.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 007G | 1,707 | 139.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 008A | 1,592 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 008B | 2,219 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.8% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 008C | 1,693 | 69.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 008D | 2,291 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.5% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 009A | 1,175 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 009B | 1,818 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.4% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 009D | 1,767 | 113.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 009E | 1,878 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.2% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 009F | 1,212 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 67.1% |
Your MP
- Andrew LewinLabourMP for Welwyn Hatfield
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 Welwyn Garden City3
Middle areas in Welwyn Garden City7
Towns near Welwyn Garden City6
Welwyn Garden City in brief
Welwyn Garden City is a town in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England.
About 52,750 people lived in Welwyn Garden City in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £410,000 in 2025 across 630 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Welwyn Garden City was £410,000 in 2025.
Welwyn Garden City had 51,504 usual residents at the census.
About 43% of people in Welwyn Garden City live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Welwyn Garden City, 93.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.