St Ives South
WardSouth east Huntingdonshire. About 8,245 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 89% of people in St Ives South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How St Ives South compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is St Ives South safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in St Ives South at a rate of 88.8 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in St Ives South.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (235), anti-social behaviour (128) and other crime (127).
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 St Ives South alone. See Huntingdonshire
St Ives South in brief
St Ives South had 7,786 usual residents at the census.
About 89% of people in St Ives South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In St Ives South, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In St Ives South, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.