Blaby and Whetstone
TownTown in Blaby, East Midlands.
Blaby and Whetstone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blaby and Whetstone 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 Blaby and Whetstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blaby and Whetstone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blaby and Whetstone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blaby and Whetstone at a rate of 60.9 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, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blaby and Whetstone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (336), anti-social behaviour (193) and other crime (153).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blaby and Whetstone was 69.1 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 Blaby and Whetstone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blaby and Whetstone has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Blaby and Whetstone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaby 008A | 1,567 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.0% |
| Blaby 008B | 1,576 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.6% |
| Blaby 008C | 2,067 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.7% |
| Blaby 008E | 1,913 | 132.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 73.2% |
| Blaby 009A | 2,350 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.8% |
| Blaby 009B | 1,614 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.2% |
| Blaby 009C | 1,532 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| Blaby 009D | 2,122 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
Your MP
- Alberto CostaConservativeMP for South Leicestershire
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 Blaby and Whetstone1
Middle areas in Blaby and Whetstone2
Towns near Blaby and Whetstone6
Blaby and Whetstone in brief
Blaby and Whetstone is a town in Blaby, East Midlands.
About 14,725 people lived in Blaby and Whetstone in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 190 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 60.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blaby and Whetstone was £275,000 in 2025.
Blaby and Whetstone had 14,072 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Blaby and Whetstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blaby and Whetstone, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.