Great Paxton
WardSouth Huntingdonshire. About 3,146 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 70 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Great Paxton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Great Paxton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Great Paxton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Paxton at a rate of 30.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 67.4 per 1,000 people across Huntingdonshire.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 15 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Paxton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (28), burglary (19) and other crime (16).
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 Huntingdonshire
These figures are published for the whole of Huntingdonshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of Huntingdonshire and not Great Paxton alone. See Huntingdonshire
Great Paxton in brief
Great Paxton had 3,104 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Great Paxton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Great Paxton, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Great Paxton, 1.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.