Melton Craven
WardSouth Melton. About 3,716 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 92% of people in Melton Craven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Melton Craven compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Melton Craven safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Melton Craven at a rate of 123.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 65.8 per 1,000 people across Melton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 35 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Melton Craven.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (184), other crime (85) and shoplifting (58).
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 Melton
These figures are published for the whole of Melton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Melton and not Melton Craven alone. See Melton
Melton Craven in brief
Melton Craven had 3,539 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Melton Craven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Melton Craven, 93.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Melton Craven, 4.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.