# Birstall Town in Charnwood, East Midlands. Birstall is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands. Median sale price £299,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 54.1 per 1,000 people. About 14,817 people. Town. Code E63002516. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Charnwood](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood) Birstall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Birstall 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £299,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Birstall was £299,000 in 2025. 427th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 14,317** (2021). Birstall had 14,317 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 477th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Birstall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 98.4%** (January 2026). In Birstall, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63002516) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in Birstall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63002516) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 240 homes were sold in Birstall in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63002516) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Birstall. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63002516) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Birstall had 14,317 usual residents at the census. ## How Birstall compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Birstall | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £299,000 | 12th most expensive | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2025 | | Population | 14,317 | 45th least populated | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 98.4% | 14th highest | 105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026 | ## Is Birstall safe? What police records show In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Birstall at a rate of 54.1 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, 68 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Birstall. In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (266), other crime (142) and anti-social behaviour (119). A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Birstall was 59.9 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 Birstall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood - Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Birstall has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank: - Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Birstall | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Charnwood 019B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025680) | 1,626 | 17.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% | | [Charnwood 019C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025681) | 1,726 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% | | [Charnwood 019D](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025682) | 1,433 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% | | [Charnwood 019E](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034006) | 2,504 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.2% | | [Charnwood 019F](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01034007) | 1,770 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% | | [Charnwood 020A](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025678) | 1,751 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% | | [Charnwood 020B](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025683) | 1,646 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% | | [Charnwood 020C](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/neighbourhood/e01025684) | 1,863 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% | ## Your MP - [Mid Leicestershire](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/mid-leicestershire): Mr Peter Bedford (Conservative), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Charnwood](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood) ## Postcode districts covering Birstall [LE4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/le4) ## Middle areas in Birstall [Birstall Central](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/birstall-central), [Birstall Wanlip & Riverside](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood/birstall-wanlip-and-riverside) ## Towns near Birstall [Leicester](https://openindex.co.uk/leicester), [Thurmaston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thurmaston), [Syston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/syston), [Mountsorrel](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mountsorrel), [Sileby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sileby), [Oadby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oadby) ## Birstall in brief Birstall is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands. About 14,817 people lived in Birstall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £299,000 in 2025 across 240 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk). The median price paid for a home in Birstall was £299,000 in 2025. Birstall had 14,317 usual residents at the census. About 0% of people in Birstall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. In Birstall, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63002516 - Constituency: [Mid Leicestershire †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/mid-leicestershire) - Council: [Charnwood †](https://openindex.co.uk/charnwood) - Region: [East Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/east-midlands) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 3.28 km² - People, mid-2024: 14,817* - Neighbourhoods: 8 - Output areas: 43 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Leicester](https://openindex.co.uk/leicester), [Thurmaston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thurmaston), [Syston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/syston), [Mountsorrel](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mountsorrel), [Sileby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sileby), [Oadby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oadby) ## Latest updates for Birstall - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63002516 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/birstall#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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