Winchester
TownTown in Winchester, South East.
Winchester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Winchester 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 0% of people in Winchester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Winchester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Winchester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Winchester at a rate of 82.8 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, 334 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Winchester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,585), other crime (869) and shoplifting (567).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Winchester was 83.1 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 Winchester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Winchester has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Winchester
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester 003A | 2,200 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Winchester 003C | 1,735 | 12.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.4% |
| Winchester 003D | 2,039 | 20.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.9% |
| Winchester 005A | 1,585 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.5% |
| Winchester 005B | 1,348 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.6% |
| Winchester 005C | 1,893 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.1% |
| Winchester 005D | 1,222 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.8% |
| Winchester 005E | 2,503 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.4% |
| Winchester 005F | 1,527 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.3% |
| Winchester 006A | 1,221 | 539.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 60.9% |
| Winchester 006B | 1,692 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.6% |
| Winchester 006C | 1,550 | 126.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.2% |
| Winchester 006D | 1,609 | 52.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.2% |
| Winchester 006E | 1,571 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.0% |
| Winchester 007A | 1,821 | 210.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 52.4% |
| Winchester 007B | 1,814 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 66.2% |
| Winchester 007C | 2,047 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 60.3% |
| Winchester 007D | 1,773 | 226.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 49.0% |
| Winchester 007E | 1,840 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.4% |
| Winchester 007F | 1,407 | 126.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.5% |
| Winchester 008A | 1,307 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Winchester 008B | 1,633 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Winchester 008C | 1,562 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Winchester 008D | 2,262 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 49.6% |
| Winchester 009B | 1,218 | 26.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Winchester 009C | 1,243 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Winchester 009D | 1,591 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| Winchester 009E | 2,089 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
Your MP
- Dr Danny ChambersLiberal DemocratMP for Winchester
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 Winchester2
Middle areas in Winchester6
Towns near Winchester6
Winchester in brief
Winchester is a town in Winchester, South East.
About 50,599 people lived in Winchester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £525,000 in 2025 across 677 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Winchester was £525,000 in 2025.
Winchester had 48,486 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Winchester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Winchester, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.