Barwell
TownTown in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
Barwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barwell 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 Barwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barwell at a rate of 61.7 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, 41 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (271), other crime (100) and anti-social behaviour (70).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barwell was 65.3 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 Barwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barwell has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007A | 1,732 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.4% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007B | 1,507 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007C | 1,626 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007D | 1,486 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.3% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007E | 1,415 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.9% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 007F | 1,386 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.5% |
Your MP
- Dr Luke EvansConservativeMP for Hinckley and Bosworth
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 Barwell1
Middle areas in Barwell1
Towns near Barwell6
Barwell in brief
Barwell is a town in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
About 9,184 people lived in Barwell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £214,000 in 2025 across 132 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barwell was £214,000 in 2025.
Barwell had 9,149 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Barwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barwell, 84.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.