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Arnold

Town

Town in Gedling, East Midlands.

Arnold is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Arnold 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Arnold live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£250,000
Joint 469th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
40,016
277th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.2%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Arnold compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

ArnoldMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Arnold is £250,000.
£250,000joint 37th most expensive
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Arnold is 40,016.
40,01618th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Arnold is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Arnold is 97.2%.
97.2%joint 36th highest

Is Arnold safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Arnold at a rate of 73.6 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, 285 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Arnold.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,009), anti-social behaviour (594) and other crime (469).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Arnold was 70.4 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 Arnold, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Arnold has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Arnold

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Gedling 004A1,35349.8 per 1,000494.3%
Gedling 004B1,77648.9 per 1,000797.8%
Gedling 004C1,39737.6 per 1,000899.8%
Gedling 004D1,67033.0 per 1,000999.9%
Gedling 004E1,10267.3 per 1,000598.0%
Gedling 005A1,052126.9 per 1,000191.5%
Gedling 005B1,65871.8 per 1,000489.7%
Gedling 005C1,755134.6 per 1,000791.8%
Gedling 005D1,412395.1 per 1,000396.9%
Gedling 006A1,49495.7 per 1,000599.4%
Gedling 006B1,496119.7 per 1,000399.0%
Gedling 006D1,925151.1 per 1,000399.9%
Gedling 007A1,37325.5 per 1,000999.8%
Gedling 007B1,47531.1 per 1,000899.4%
Gedling 007C1,45027.1 per 1,000899.7%
Gedling 007D1,50928.5 per 1,000898.9%
Gedling 007E1,25253.7 per 1,000898.0%
Gedling 008C2,49339.5 per 1,000960.3%
Gedling 009A1,48590.9 per 1,000898.6%
Gedling 009B1,56430.9 per 1,000991.5%
Gedling 009C1,40830.1 per 1,0001098.1%
Gedling 009D1,34731.2 per 1,00010100.0%
Gedling 009E1,27612.8 per 1,00010100.0%
Gedling 009F1,38259.3 per 1,000994.8%
Gedling 009G1,56231.1 per 1,0001098.6%
Nottingham 007A1,517168.9 per 1,000199.9%

Your MP

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 Arnold2

Middle areas in Arnold5

Towns near Arnold6

Arnold in brief

Arnold is a town in Gedling, East Midlands.

About 40,484 people lived in Arnold in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 615 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Arnold was £250,000 in 2025.

Arnold had 40,016 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Arnold live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Arnold, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.