Biggleswade
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Biggleswade is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Biggleswade 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 11% of people in Biggleswade live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Biggleswade compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Biggleswade safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Biggleswade at a rate of 67.1 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, 128 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Biggleswade.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (483), anti-social behaviour (299) and other crime (241).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Biggleswade was 56.5 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 Biggleswade, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Biggleswade has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 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 Biggleswade
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 005A | 1,937 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 005B | 1,627 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 005C | 1,886 | 216.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 005D | 1,765 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 005E | 1,264 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 005F | 2,834 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006A | 1,427 | 112.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006B | 1,509 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006E | 1,334 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006F | 1,444 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006G | 1,420 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006H | 1,551 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006I | 1,408 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 006J | 1,134 | 61.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Richard FullerConservativeMP for North Bedfordshire
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 Biggleswade1
Middle areas in Biggleswade2
Towns near Biggleswade6
Biggleswade in brief
Biggleswade is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 22,750 people lived in Biggleswade in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 414 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Biggleswade was £330,000 in 2025.
Biggleswade had 21,945 usual residents at the census.
About 11% of people in Biggleswade live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Biggleswade, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.