Ashby-de-la-Zouch
TownTown in North West Leicestershire, East Midlands.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 97% of people in Ashby-de-la-Zouch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashby-de-la-Zouch compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ashby-de-la-Zouch safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ashby-de-la-Zouch at a rate of 69.9 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, 135 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (443), other crime (192) and anti-social behaviour (174).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ashby-de-la-Zouch was 66.7 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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashby-de-la-Zouch has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashby-de-la-Zouch
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North West Leicestershire 003A | 1,184 | 126.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| North West Leicestershire 003B | 1,731 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| North West Leicestershire 003D | 1,678 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.4% |
| North West Leicestershire 003E | 1,824 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.7% |
| North West Leicestershire 003F | 1,904 | 116.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.8% |
| North West Leicestershire 006A | 1,289 | 19.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| North West Leicestershire 006B | 1,506 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| North West Leicestershire 006C | 1,983 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| North West Leicestershire 006D | 2,022 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.0% |
Your MP
- Amanda HackLabourMP for North West Leicestershire
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 Ashby-de-la-Zouch1
Middle areas in Ashby-de-la-Zouch2
Towns near Ashby-de-la-Zouch6
Ashby-de-la-Zouch in brief
Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a town in North West Leicestershire, East Midlands.
About 16,129 people lived in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £311,000 in 2025 across 287 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ashby-de-la-Zouch was £311,000 in 2025.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch had 15,121 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Ashby-de-la-Zouch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.