Ashbourne
TownTown in Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands.
Ashbourne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashbourne 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 50% of people in Ashbourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashbourne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashbourne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashbourne at a rate of 58.6 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, 34 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashbourne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (242), other crime (112) and anti-social behaviour (70).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashbourne was 58.0 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 Ashbourne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashbourne has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashbourne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire Dales 008A | 1,924 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 71.3% |
| Derbyshire Dales 009A | 1,797 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 79.8% |
| Derbyshire Dales 009B | 1,835 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 77.2% |
| Derbyshire Dales 009C | 2,134 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.6% |
| Derbyshire Dales 009D | 1,762 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.9% |
Your MP
- John WhitbyLabourMP for Derbyshire Dales
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 Ashbourne1
Middle areas in Ashbourne1
Towns near Ashbourne6
Ashbourne in brief
Ashbourne is a town in Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands.
About 9,125 people lived in Ashbourne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £277,000 in 2025 across 145 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 58.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashbourne was £277,000 in 2025.
Ashbourne had 8,854 usual residents at the census.
About 50% of people in Ashbourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashbourne, 80.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.