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Cholesbury

Cholesbury is a village in Hertfordshire, England, with a population of around 326. There are 2 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Tring, 5 km away. In June 2026, there was around 1 recorded street crime, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Cholesbury area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Dacorum area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 155,081 residents at roughly 730 people per km².

Council
Dacorum
County
Hertfordshire
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire
Police force
Hertfordshire
49/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 155th of 294 English council areas — better than 47% of them.

Low crime71
Home affordability12
Affordable rents14
Good schools30
Life expectancy68
Low deprivation71
Employment52
Low council tax58

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 34% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:58Sunset 16:33

9h 35m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · London Harlington, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

161 reported road collisions (2025)

44 killed or seriously injured · 207 casualties · 10.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

11 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 10 rated 4–5 ★ (9 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Tring (5.5 km)
  • 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Tring (5.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£450,935 average▲ 0.1% YoY

Across Dacorum · to 2026-08

Detached£913,529
Semi-detached£544,712
Terraced£418,630
Flat£258,834

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,594 average monthly rent▲ 1.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,098
  • 2 bed £1,378
  • 3 bed £1,655

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

11.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.9 times median annual pay (12.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,890 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 142.8p · AppleGreen (5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Shell (4.5 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

19 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: Champneys Tring (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

155,081 residents in Dacorum · 730/km²

  • Under 16: 20%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,184
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,963
  • Net moves+221

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 211 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,409 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (31% of 67,930)

A £1,606
B £1,873
C £2,141
D £2,409
E £2,944
F £3,479
G £4,014
H £4,817

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

80 schools · 28,467 pupils

55 primary · 9 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 20 of 24 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (83%)

70 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Ashlyns SchoolGood
  • Laureate AcademyGood
  • The Adeyfield AcademyGood
  • The Astley Cooper SchoolGood
  • The Hemel Hempstead SchoolGood
  • John F Kennedy Catholic School
  • Kings Langley School
  • Longdean School
  • Tring School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dacorum

Care & health services

1,176 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes257
  • GP practices171
  • Dentists296
  • Homecare agencies330
  • Hospitals & hospices34

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hertfordshire

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Cholesbury and Hawridge)
  • Within the Green Belt
  • 22 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

308 applications decided

84.4% granted · 260 granted, 48 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Greg Smith

Conservative

Mid Buckinghamshire

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat (minority)

  • Lab 4
  • Con 18
  • LD 19
  • Oth 10

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

9,190 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£889 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£31,901 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 76,523 certificates

8.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

75% low-carbon electricity

Wind 50% · Gas 25% · Nuclear 16% · Biomass 9%

107 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.8 yrs women · 81.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Hertfordshire): 65.5 women · 65.4 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.6
  • Feeling worthwhile7.9
  • Happiness yesterday7.7
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

1 GP surgery · 3 pharmacies in HP23

  • Rothschild House Group

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Buckinghamshire:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards · 0.0 km

    Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards is a civil parish in the English county of Buckinghamshire. It lies in the Chiltern Hills just to the north of Chesham, on the boundary with Hertfordshire.

  • Cholesbury · 0.0 km

    Cholesbury is a village in the civil parish of Cholesbury-cum-St. Leonards, in Buckinghamshire, England, on the border with Hertfordshire. It is situated in the Chiltern Hills, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wendover,…

  • Cholesbury Camp · 0.2 km

    Cholesbury Camp is a large and well-preserved Iron Age hill fort on the northern edge of the village of Cholesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is roughly oval-shaped and covers an area, including ramparts, of 15 a…

  • Hawridge Windmill · 0.3 km

    Hawridge Windmill which is also known as Cholesbury Windmill is a disused tower mill in Hawridge, Buckinghamshire. The mill was constructed on the site of an earlier smock mill and became a private residence in 1913 w…

  • Buckland Common · 1.0 km

    Buckland Common is a hamlet in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wendover and the same distance south of Tring in Hertfordshire with which it shares a boundary. Th…

  • Champneys · 2.2 km

    Champneys is an English country house and its associated estate near Tring, Hertfordshire. The mansion is run as a destination spa by a business using "Champneys" as the brand name for a group of spa resorts and day s…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Cholesbury?
Cholesbury is a town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Dacorum local authority.
What is the population of Cholesbury?
Cholesbury has an approximate settlement population of 326.
How deprived is Cholesbury?
The Dacorum local authority, which includes Cholesbury, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.