Ferndown
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Ferndown is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ferndown 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 Ferndown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ferndown compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ferndown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ferndown at a rate of 37.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
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 Ferndown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (169), anti-social behaviour (142) and other crime (70).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ferndown was 39.2 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 Ferndown, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ferndown has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ferndown
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 018A | 1,334 | 46.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| Dorset 018B | 1,464 | 20.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.2% |
| Dorset 018C | 1,751 | 85.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 73.6% |
| Dorset 020A | 1,337 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.2% |
| Dorset 020B | 1,098 | 11.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Dorset 020E | 1,130 | 98.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 59.6% |
| Dorset 024A | 1,905 | 14.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 61.2% |
| Dorset 024C | 1,638 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 53.8% |
| Dorset 024E | 1,434 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.1% |
| Dorset 024F | 1,631 | 49.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.4% |
Your MP
- Sir Christopher ChopeConservativeMP for Christchurch
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 Ferndown2
Middle areas in Ferndown3
Towns near Ferndown6
Ferndown in brief
Ferndown is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 13,436 people lived in Ferndown in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £420,500 in 2025 across 312 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 37.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ferndown was £420,500 in 2025.
Ferndown had 13,267 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ferndown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ferndown, 80.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.