Ripley
WardNorth east Amber Valley. About 9,760 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 6.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Ripley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ripley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ripley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ripley at a rate of 132.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.6 per 1,000 people across Amber Valley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 114 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ripley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (652), other crime (265) and anti-social behaviour (189).
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.
Figures for the whole of Amber Valley
These figures are published for the whole of Amber Valley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Amber Valley and not Ripley alone. See Amber Valley
Ripley in brief
Ripley had 9,311 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ripley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ripley, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ripley, 2.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.