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Beeston

Town

Town in Broxtowe, East Midlands.

Beeston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Beeston 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 75% of people in Beeston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£282,250
474th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
52,359
202nd most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
75%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
93.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Beeston compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BeestonMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Beeston is £282,250.
£282,25018th most expensive
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Beeston is 52,359.
52,35913th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Beeston is 75.0%.
75%joint 47th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Beeston is 93.0%.
93.0%28th lowest

Is Beeston safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Beeston at a rate of 84.0 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, 447 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Beeston.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,352), shoplifting (842) and other crime (786).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Beeston was 74.3 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 Beeston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Beeston has no single figure. Of its 34 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 14 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Beeston

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Broxtowe 007A1,59028.5 per 1,0001047.5%
Broxtowe 007B1,45929.2 per 1,0001099.1%
Broxtowe 007C1,30046.9 per 1,0001084.8%
Broxtowe 007D1,35986.2 per 1,000777.1%
Broxtowe 007E1,53626.9 per 1,0001069.5%
Broxtowe 009A1,25835.7 per 1,000697.4%
Broxtowe 009B1,43781.0 per 1,000396.9%
Broxtowe 009C1,66570.5 per 1,0005100.0%
Broxtowe 009D2,00688.9 per 1,0001096.7%
Broxtowe 009E1,74722.0 per 1,0001099.9%
Broxtowe 011A1,641292.4 per 1,000595.5%
Broxtowe 011B2,07655.7 per 1,000796.2%
Broxtowe 011C1,652144.2 per 1,000699.3%
Broxtowe 011D2,159329.1 per 1,000879.2%
Broxtowe 011E1,552123.4 per 1,000882.7%
Broxtowe 012A1,78949.4 per 1,000896.9%
Broxtowe 012B1,08167.2 per 1,000697.2%
Broxtowe 012C1,20743.7 per 1,0001099.5%
Broxtowe 012D1,299198.9 per 1,000498.4%
Broxtowe 013A1,36233.3 per 1,0001099.3%
Broxtowe 013B1,55978.2 per 1,000377.5%
Broxtowe 013C1,31419.6 per 1,0001098.1%
Broxtowe 013D1,809146.2 per 1,000797.5%
Broxtowe 013E1,548128.8 per 1,0002100.0%
Broxtowe 014A1,12737.9 per 1,0009100.0%
Broxtowe 014B1,06856.8 per 1,0001094.4%
Broxtowe 014C1,76925.7 per 1,000997.7%
Broxtowe 014D1,44346.6 per 1,000899.7%
Broxtowe 014E2,03454.3 per 1,000999.7%
Broxtowe 015A1,38027.9 per 1,00010100.0%
Broxtowe 015B1,66118.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Broxtowe 015C2,43689.4 per 1,0001091.8%
Broxtowe 015D1,17535.9 per 1,000996.4%
Broxtowe 015E1,41257.0 per 1,0001099.3%

Your MP

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 Beeston1

Middle areas in Beeston7

Towns near Beeston6

Beeston in brief

Beeston is a town in Broxtowe, East Midlands.

About 54,644 people lived in Beeston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £282,250 in 2025 across 800 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Beeston was £282,250 in 2025.

Beeston had 52,359 usual residents at the census.

About 75% of people in Beeston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Beeston, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.