Wickersley North
WardNorth Rotherham. About 12,814 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 86% of people in Wickersley North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wickersley North compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wickersley North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wickersley North at a rate of 85.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 110.9 per 1,000 people across Rotherham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 100 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wickersley North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (296), violence and sexual offences (280) and other crime (129).
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 Rotherham
These figures are published for the whole of Rotherham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Rotherham and not Wickersley North alone. See Rotherham
Wickersley North in brief
Wickersley North had 12,783 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Wickersley North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wickersley North, 99.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wickersley North, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.