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Whiteley

Town

Town in Fareham and Winchester, South East.

Whiteley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whiteley 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 43% of people in Whiteley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£365,000
Joint 246th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
9,350
192nd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
43%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
92.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Whiteley compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

WhiteleyMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Whiteley is £365,000.
£365,000joint 83rd cheapest
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Whiteley is 9,350.
9,35034th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Whiteley is 43.0%.
43%joint 101st most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Whiteley is 92.9%.
92.9%joint 75th highest

Is Whiteley safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whiteley at a rate of 67.9 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, 47 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whiteley.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (238), other crime (137) and anti-social behaviour (89).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whiteley was 60.7 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 Whiteley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whiteley has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • 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 Whiteley

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Fareham 001B1,69823.9 per 1,00010100.0%
Fareham 001C2,53236.2 per 1,0001096.7%
Fareham 001E2,10065.4 per 1,0001081.8%
Winchester 013F1,74952.5 per 1,0001099.5%
Winchester 013G1,570146.5 per 1,000998.2%

Your MP

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 Whiteley sits in2

Postcode districts covering Whiteley2

Middle areas in Whiteley1

Towns near Whiteley6

Whiteley in brief

Whiteley is a town in Fareham and Winchester, South East.

About 9,910 people lived in Whiteley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £365,000 in 2025 across 165 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Whiteley was £365,000 in 2025.

Whiteley had 9,350 usual residents at the census.

About 43% of people in Whiteley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Whiteley, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.