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A town of 15,101 in Surrey, South East. Primary school results beat 96% of towns in England.
Frimley grades A overall against UK towns: better than 90% of UK towns, and #21 of 65 in Surrey. Its strongest subject is jobs & income (A+): mean household income £75,047; 2.3% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Its weakest is hazard risk (C): 1.1% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The median home sold for £455,500 in the last three years, 6.1 times what households in the Surrey Heath council area earn in a year.
The 3 things Frimley does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Frimley is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Frimley’s built-up area.
4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Frimley. Best known first.
Abbey or priorySaint Michael’s Abbey1.3 km outside town, to the southwest
CathedralCathedral of St Michael and St George, Aldershot4.7 km outside town, to the south
MuseumMuseum of Military Medicine1.8 km outside town, to the south
MuseumFarnborough Air Science Trust Museum2.4 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumAldershot Military Museum3.4 km outside town, to the south
MuseumRoyal Army Physical Training Corps Museum4.2 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Frimley.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
4% of its homes were built before 1919, lower than both Surrey’s towns (13%) and England’s towns (16%). For its size, Frimley has 9 listed buildings per 10,000 residents. Also worth knowing: the register of parks and gardens lists one locally.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Some 2,963 pupils attend Frimley’s five primaries and one secondary. Of its 6 schools, three are shown below, each with the reason. GCSE results at the 5 secondary schools within 3 km: 45% of pupils get a strong pass (grade 5+) in English and maths, and the Attainment 8 average is 46.9.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 435 | A |
| Tomlinscote SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,495 | A− |
| Frimley CofE SchoolTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 336 | A |
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 36% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
23% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. About 27% of its commuters stay in Frimley for work. Driving is how three quarters of commuters got to work at the census.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
2 GP practices serve the town; four in five patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 3.2% of the town. 13% of residents have a disability, near Surrey’s towns (14%) and lower than England’s towns (17%).
| Census 2021 | Frimley | Surrey | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 87% | 87% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.2% | 3.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 13% | 14% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Among the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, Frimley has less crime per resident than 72% of them. 768 crimes and 124 reports of anti-social behaviour: that is what police recorded inside the town’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026. Nearly half of the crimes fell under violence and sexual offences.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
Social housing holds 10% of households, below Surrey’s towns (12%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. Renting privately is how 13% of households live. The median sale, £455,500, comes from 522 standard sales inside Frimley’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £571,250 | 184 |
| Semi-detached | £458,750 | 196 |
| Terraced | £392,000 | 93 |
| Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | 49 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Graduates make up 38% of adults. A fifth of residents are 65 or over, above Surrey’s towns (19%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. Ages in Frimley split evenly at 43.9: half are older, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Frimley | Surrey | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 25% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 25% |
| 65+ | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 13% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.7% | 4.2% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 38% | 42% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Surrey and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
13 listed buildings in Frimley.
Church of St Andrew: Photo: Mertbiol · CC0 · The Barn: Photo: Graham Bleach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cross Cottage: Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anglia Building Society: Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0
62 notable people were born in Frimley.
James, Earl of Wessex: NZ Defence Force, CC BY 4.0 · Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor: Mark Jones, CC BY 2.0 · Jonny Wilkinson: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ben Pattison: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Toby Flood: Patrick Subotkiewiez, CC BY 2.0 · John McFall: Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frimley | 15,101 | — | A | B | C+ | A− |
| Deepcut | 2,163 | 1.3 | — | B+ | C | A− |
| Camberley | 36,787 | 1.7 | A− | B | C+ | B+ |
| Farnborough | 60,665 | 1.8 | C+ | C | C | B− |
| Hawley | 2,581 | 2.3 | A+ | A | A− | A |
| Blackwater | 7,170 | 3.1 | A | A | B− | A− |
| Pirbright | 3,920 | 3.2 | A | D | A+ | A |
| Sandhurst | 20,220 | 3.5 | A | B− | A− | A |
Deepcut has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Homes cost more than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £455,500, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £220,000, terraced houses £392,000, semi-detached houses £458,750 and detached houses £571,250. Household incomes are higher than in 95% of UK towns, so cost of living still grades B.
Secondary results are closer to the middle, beating 54%.
Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C+.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Surrey, England
Frimley is a built-up area of 15,101 people, in the Surrey Heath council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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