Living in Bushey
Bushey is a town in Hertsmere, East of England, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Bushey postcode.
Bushey is a town of 27,994 people at 2,042 per km², where 88% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 9 of its 10 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 6.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.
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Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.
Best-rated schools in Bushey
Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 19 schools → Schools in Bushey
Bushey crime rate
6.1crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08
Fewer than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 172 recorded crimes a month in all
- Is Bushey a good place to live?
- Bushey has 27,994 residents, 88% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 90% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (6.1 per 1,000 a month) is below the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Bushey postcode.
- Is Bushey safe?
- Bushey recorded 6.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.
- How many people live in Bushey?
- 27,994 people live in Bushey (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 13.7 km² — about 2,042 per km².
- What are the schools like in Bushey?
- There are 19 schools inside Bushey; 90% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Bushey Heath Primary School, Ashfield Junior School and Bushey Manor Junior School.
- Where is Bushey?
- Bushey is a town in Hertsmere, East of England, England.
This page is NestScope's guide to Bushey as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.
Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.