Attleborough
TownTown in Breckland, East of England.
Attleborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Attleborough 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 0% of people in Attleborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Attleborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Attleborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Attleborough at a rate of 48.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Attleborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (281), other crime (92) and anti-social behaviour (87).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Attleborough was 46.0 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 Attleborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Attleborough has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Attleborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breckland 011B | 1,887 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.8% |
| Breckland 011C | 1,715 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.0% |
| Breckland 011D | 1,925 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.2% |
| Breckland 011E | 1,869 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% |
| Breckland 011F | 1,188 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.7% |
| Breckland 011G | 2,006 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 71.8% |
Your MP
- George FreemanConservativeMP for Mid Norfolk
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 Attleborough1
Middle areas in Attleborough1
Towns near Attleborough6
Attleborough in brief
Attleborough is a town in Breckland, East of England.
About 11,963 people lived in Attleborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 221 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Attleborough was £260,000 in 2025.
Attleborough had 11,236 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Attleborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Attleborough, 87.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.