Atherstone
TownTown in North Warwickshire, West Midlands.
Atherstone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Atherstone 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 35% of people in Atherstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Atherstone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Atherstone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Atherstone at a rate of 101.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Atherstone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (357), anti-social behaviour (158) and other crime (120).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Atherstone was 85.0 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 Atherstone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Atherstone has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Atherstone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Warwickshire 003A | 2,189 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.3% |
| North Warwickshire 003B | 1,981 | 198.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 59.4% |
| North Warwickshire 003C | 2,238 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.2% |
| North Warwickshire 003D | 1,509 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.2% |
| North Warwickshire 003E | 1,019 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
Your MP
- Rachel TaylorLabourMP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth
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 Atherstone1
Middle areas in Atherstone1
Towns near Atherstone6
Atherstone in brief
Atherstone is a town in North Warwickshire, West Midlands.
About 8,854 people lived in Atherstone in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 127 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Atherstone was £200,000 in 2025.
Atherstone had 8,666 usual residents at the census.
About 35% of people in Atherstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Atherstone, 77.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.