Alfreton
TownTown in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
Alfreton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Alfreton add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 95% of people in Alfreton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Alfreton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Alfreton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Alfreton at a rate of 126.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Alfreton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (473), other crime (225) and anti-social behaviour (158).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Alfreton was 124.2 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Alfreton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Alfreton has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Alfreton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley 001A | 1,762 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.6% |
| Amber Valley 001B | 1,712 | 226.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.9% |
| Amber Valley 001C | 1,887 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Amber Valley 001D | 1,984 | 140.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Amber Valley 003A | 1,450 | 118.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
Your MP
- Linsey FarnsworthLabourMP for Amber Valley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Alfreton1
Middle areas in Alfreton1
Towns near Alfreton6
Alfreton in brief
Alfreton is a town in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
About 9,457 people lived in Alfreton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £192,500 in 2025 across 148 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 126.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Alfreton was £192,500 in 2025.
Alfreton had 8,790 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Alfreton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Alfreton, 92.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.