Great Linford
WardCentral Milton Keynes. About 13,923 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 6.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 98% of people in Great Linford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Great Linford compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Great Linford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Linford at a rate of 92.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 99.4 per 1,000 people across Milton Keynes.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Linford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (487), other crime (247) and shoplifting (146).
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 Milton Keynes
These figures are published for the whole of Milton Keynes, not for each ward, so they describe all of Milton Keynes and not Great Linford alone. See Milton Keynes
Great Linford in brief
Great Linford had 13,816 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Great Linford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Great Linford, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Great Linford, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.