Needham Market
WardSouth Mid Suffolk. About 6,374 people in 31 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in Needham Market live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Needham Market compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Needham Market safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Needham Market at a rate of 59.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 40.3 per 1,000 people across Mid Suffolk.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 26 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Needham Market.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (119), other crime (61) and anti-social behaviour (33).
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 Mid Suffolk
These figures are published for the whole of Mid Suffolk, not for each ward, so they describe all of Mid Suffolk and not Needham Market alone. See Mid Suffolk
Needham Market in brief
Needham Market had 5,990 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Needham Market live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Needham Market, 70.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Needham Market, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.