Balderton
TownTown in Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.
Balderton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Balderton 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 44% of people in Balderton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Balderton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Balderton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Balderton at a rate of 61.4 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Balderton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (270), other crime (168) and anti-social behaviour (164).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Balderton was 59.3 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 Balderton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Balderton has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Balderton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newark and Sherwood 011A | 1,192 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011B | 1,316 | 53.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.5% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011C | 1,508 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011D | 1,466 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011E | 1,361 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011F | 1,430 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Newark and Sherwood 011G | 2,074 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Newark and Sherwood 012H | 1,484 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Newark and Sherwood 012I | 1,623 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.4% |
Your MP
- Robert JenrickReform UKMP for Newark
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 Balderton1
Middle areas in Balderton1
Towns near Balderton6
Balderton in brief
Balderton is a town in Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.
About 14,046 people lived in Balderton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £237,500 in 2025 across 343 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Balderton was £237,500 in 2025.
Balderton had 12,876 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Balderton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Balderton, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.