Baldock
TownTown in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
Baldock is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Baldock 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 21% of people in Baldock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Baldock compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Baldock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Baldock at a rate of 75.2 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, 76 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Baldock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (320), anti-social behaviour (160) and other crime (132).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Baldock was 83.8 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 Baldock, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Baldock has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Baldock
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Hertfordshire 004A | 1,039 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| North Hertfordshire 004B | 1,411 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.3% |
| North Hertfordshire 004C | 1,695 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.7% |
| North Hertfordshire 004D | 1,801 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.1% |
| North Hertfordshire 004E | 1,547 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.7% |
| North Hertfordshire 004F | 1,635 | 173.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| North Hertfordshire 004G | 1,489 | 114.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Chris HinchliffLabourMP for North East Hertfordshire
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 Baldock1
Middle areas in Baldock1
Towns near Baldock6
Baldock in brief
Baldock is a town in North Hertfordshire, East of England.
About 10,722 people lived in Baldock in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £345,000 in 2025 across 170 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Baldock was £345,000 in 2025.
Baldock had 10,613 usual residents at the census.
About 21% of people in Baldock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Baldock, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.