Buckinghamshire: local statistics
Buckinghamshire is a unitary authority in the South East, home to an estimated 584,296 people (mid-2025). This page brings together 10 official figures for the area, each with its period, publisher and the address it was read from. See also who has power over Buckinghamshire, from the council up to the G20.
Key figures
What the figures show
The ONS counted 34,245 VAT or PAYE-registered businesses in Buckinghamshire in March 2026, 4% more than in 2016. That is 59 for every 1,000 residents, the 9th highest of 64 in the South East.
HM Land Registry puts the average price of a home in Buckinghamshire at £479,736 for July 2026, up 1.1% on July 2025. Among council areas that puts it the 12th highest of all 64 council areas in the South East; the average for the South East was £380,878. This July figure is the highest in the series, 19% up on July 2016. The average price is 11.1 times the median annual pay of full-time employees who live in Buckinghamshire. That ratio is 10th of 64 in the South East, counting from the highest ratio.
A girl born in Buckinghamshire in 2022 to 2024 could expect to live 85.5 years and a boy 81.5 years, on the ONS's period measure (England: 83.3 and 79.5). Since 2012 to 2014 it has changed by +0.7 years for women and +0.2 for men. It is the 9th highest for women of all 64 council areas in the South East.
Police recorded 31,038 crimes in Buckinghamshire in the year to March 2026, 53.1 for every 1,000 residents, 39th of 55 in the South East, counting from the highest rate. A year earlier it was 54.9. In the year to March 2016 it was 46.1 per 1,000. Fraud is not included.
Buckinghamshire had an estimated 584,296 residents in mid-2025, up 1.0% on a year earlier. That is 54,297 more people than in mid-2015, a rise of 10.2% (the South East: +8.1%), the 21st fastest growth of 64 in the South East. The mid-2025 estimate is the highest in the series.
For 2026-27 the average Band D council tax bill in Buckinghamshire is £2,526.58, up £125.05 on 2025-26. It is 24th of 64 in the South East, counting from the highest. In 2020-21 the figure was £1,902.84, so it has risen 33%.
The median full-time employee living in Buckinghamshire was paid £835.80 a week before tax in April 2025 (£43,290 a year). It is 26th of 64 in the South East, counting from the highest, and 2.5% more than across the South East. Jobs based in Buckinghamshire paid a median £792.80 a week, £43.00 less than the figure for people who live there. Ten years earlier, in 2015, it was £613.30: a change of +36% before inflation.
3.0% of Buckinghamshire residents aged 16 to 64 (10,740 people) were on the claimant count in August 2026, compared with 3.1% in the South East. That compares with 3.1% a year before. Since August 2021 the rate has ranged between 2.5% (January 2024) and 3.5% (August 2021).
An estimated 80.6% of people aged 16 to 64 living in Buckinghamshire were in work in April 2025 to March 2026, according to the ONS Annual Population Survey (give or take 2.8 points), against 78.9% across the South East. Its lowest reading in the series was 75.8% and its highest 82.2%.
History
Population (mid-year)
| 2015 | 529,999 |
| 2016 | 535,519 |
| 2017 | 538,762 |
| 2018 | 541,983 |
| 2019 | 545,859 |
| 2020 | 549,066 |
| 2021 | 555,161 |
| 2022 | 561,173 |
| 2023 | 570,039 |
| 2024 | 578,432 |
| 2025 | 584,296 |
Average house price (same month each year)
| July 2016 | £404,392 |
| July 2017 | £421,026 |
| July 2018 | £422,529 |
| July 2019 | £416,556 |
| July 2020 | £409,222 |
| July 2021 | £430,264 |
| July 2022 | £472,760 |
| July 2023 | £466,949 |
| July 2024 | £470,795 |
| July 2025 | £474,585 |
| July 2026 | £479,736 |
Median weekly pay, residents
| 2015 | £613.30 a week |
| 2016 | £622.80 a week |
| 2017 | £638.10 a week |
| 2018 | £660.50 a week |
| 2019 | £670.70 a week |
| 2020 | £670.80 a week |
| 2021 | £689.90 a week |
| 2022 | £723.60 a week |
| 2023 | £766.90 a week |
| 2024 | £845.90 a week |
| 2025 | £835.80 a week |
Average Band D council tax
| 2020-21 | £1,902.84 |
| 2021-22 | £1,982.36 |
| 2022-23 | £2,068.31 |
| 2023-24 | £2,176.85 |
| 2024-25 | £2,286.13 |
| 2025-26 | £2,401.53 |
| 2026-27 | £2,526.58 |
Recorded crimes per 1,000 residents
| 2015/16 | 46.1 per 1,000 |
| 2016/17 | 48.2 per 1,000 |
| 2017/18 | 53.1 per 1,000 |
| 2018/19 | 57.5 per 1,000 |
| 2019/20 | 58.3 per 1,000 |
| 2020/21 | 52.3 per 1,000 |
| 2021/22 | 58.6 per 1,000 |
| 2022/23 | 60.0 per 1,000 |
| 2023/24 | 56.6 per 1,000 |
| 2024/25 | 54.9 per 1,000 |
| 2025/26 | 53.1 per 1,000 |
Employment rate
| 2015/16 | 79.7% |
| 2016/17 | 81.6% |
| 2017/18 | 80.4% |
| 2018/19 | 80.0% |
| 2019/20 | 81.5% |
| 2020/21 | 75.8% |
| 2021/22 | 79.8% |
| 2022/23 | 81.1% |
| 2023/24 | 81.2% |
| 2024/25 | 82.2% |
| 2025/26 | 80.6% |
Life expectancy, women
| 2012 to 2014 | 84.8 years |
| 2013 to 2015 | 84.8 years |
| 2014 to 2016 | 84.8 years |
| 2015 to 2017 | 84.7 years |
| 2016 to 2018 | 84.9 years |
| 2017 to 2019 | 85.1 years |
| 2018 to 2020 | 84.9 years |
| 2019 to 2021 | 84.6 years |
| 2020 to 2022 | 84.5 years |
| 2021 to 2023 | 84.9 years |
| 2022 to 2024 | 85.5 years |
Registered businesses
| 2016 | 33,070 |
| 2017 | 34,175 |
| 2018 | 33,900 |
| 2019 | 34,405 |
| 2020 | 34,550 |
| 2021 | 34,705 |
| 2022 | 34,520 |
| 2023 | 34,355 |
| 2024 | 34,315 |
| 2025 | 33,545 |
| 2026 | 34,245 |
Questions about Buckinghamshire
What is the average house price in Buckinghamshire?
£479,736 in July 2026, on HM Land Registry's UK House Price Index (+1.1% on a year).
What is life expectancy in Buckinghamshire?
85.5 years for women and 81.5 for men (2022 to 2024, ONS).
What is the crime rate in Buckinghamshire?
Home Office figures show 31,038 offences in the year to March 2026, or 53.1 per 1,000 people, not counting fraud.
What is the population of Buckinghamshire?
584,296 in mid-2025, the latest ONS mid-year estimate.
How much is Band D council tax in Buckinghamshire?
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government gives an average Band D bill of £2,526.58 for 2026-27.
What is the average salary in Buckinghamshire?
£835.80 a week before tax, the median for full-time employees who live there (April 2025, ONS).
How many people claim unemployment-related benefits in Buckinghamshire?
10,740 in August 2026 (3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64), on the ONS claimant count, which is not the unemployment rate.
Who has power over Buckinghamshire
Every body that makes decisions for Buckinghamshire, from the street up to the G20. Each one links to its page on the official record. How the ten levels work.
Level 1: Neighbourhood and community power
Residents' and tenants' groups, neighbourhood forums and local policing panels.
Level 2: Parish, town and community councils
Parish, town and community councils, where the area has them, sit below the council.
Level 3: Local councils
- Buckinghamshire council spending, reserves, debt and council tax
- Buckinghamshire in official figures this page
Level 5: Devolved and state governments
England has no devolved parliament of its own: its laws are made by the UK Parliament.
Level 6: National government
- Aylesbury: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour) MP
- Beaconsfield: Joy Morrissey (Conservative) MP
- Buckingham and Bletchley: Callum Anderson (Labour) MP
- Chesham and Amersham: Sarah Green (Liberal Democrat) MP
- Mid Buckinghamshire: Greg Smith (Conservative) MP
- Wycombe: Emma Reynolds (Labour) MP
- All 650 MPs votes, interests and costs
- UK government and Parliament official figures and sources
Level 7: Regional blocs and supranational bodies
- Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE / ECtHR) The UK Government says the United Kingdom was one of the Council of Europe's founding members.
Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies
- United Nations (General Assembly and Security Council) The UN lists the United Kingdom as a member admitted on 24 October 1945.
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) The UK is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and holds the veto, according to the UN.
- NATO NATO lists the United Kingdom among its 12 founding members, which signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- World Health Organization (WHO) WHO's list of member states includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO says the United Kingdom has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948.
- Commonwealth of Nations The UK is one of the 56 members, one of three European members with Cyprus and Malta, and the Commonwealth Secretariat is headquartered at Marlborough House in London.
Level 9: The IMF, World Bank and global finance
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) The UK has been a member since 27 December 1945 and has a quota of SDR 20,155.1 million (IMF country page for the United Kingdom).
- World Bank Group (WBG) The UK holds 3.75% of voting power in the IBRD (data as of 30 June 2026) and 6.92% in IDA (as of 30 June 2026), according to the World Bank's voting tables.
Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums
Sources
Each value above links to the official file or query it was read from, on 14 October 2026. What each figure measures.
- Recorded crime: Sum of the former Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe partnerships, which make up this council area. Years before April 2020 come from the earlier Home Office table.
More on this area and these figures
- Council money: spending, reserves and debt
- Figures for the whole region: the South East
- UK figures: UK average house price · Life expectancy at birth (UK) · Crime Survey for England and Wales: headline crime
- Other council areas in the South East: Basingstoke and Deane · Brighton and Hove · Medway · Milton Keynes · Portsmouth · Southampton
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