Belper
TownTown in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
Belper is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Belper 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 85% of people in Belper live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Belper compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Belper safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Belper at a rate of 53.4 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, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Belper.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (478), other crime (197) and anti-social behaviour (130).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Belper was 59.6 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 Belper, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Belper has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Belper
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley 007B | 1,600 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.7% |
| Amber Valley 009A | 1,666 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.1% |
| Amber Valley 009B | 1,682 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Amber Valley 009C | 1,836 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.1% |
| Amber Valley 009D | 1,305 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Amber Valley 009E | 1,388 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Amber Valley 010A | 2,002 | 173.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.0% |
| Amber Valley 010B | 1,644 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.6% |
| Amber Valley 010C | 1,981 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.5% |
| Amber Valley 011A | 1,383 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Amber Valley 011B | 1,380 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Amber Valley 011C | 1,768 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
Your MP
- Jonathan DaviesLabourMP for Mid Derbyshire
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 Belper1
Middle areas in Belper3
Towns near Belper6
Belper in brief
Belper is a town in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
About 19,266 people lived in Belper in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £254,000 in 2025 across 343 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Belper was £254,000 in 2025.
Belper had 19,076 usual residents at the census.
About 85% of people in Belper live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Belper, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.