Bolsover
TownTown in Bolsover, East Midlands.
Bolsover is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bolsover 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 82% of people in Bolsover live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bolsover compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bolsover safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bolsover at a rate of 91.3 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, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bolsover.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (477), other crime (218) and anti-social behaviour (143).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bolsover was 103.7 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 Bolsover, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bolsover has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bolsover
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolsover 004A | 2,040 | 158.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| Bolsover 004C | 1,300 | 105.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.4% |
| Bolsover 004D | 1,447 | 144.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Bolsover 005A | 1,017 | 38.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.6% |
| Bolsover 005B | 1,698 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Bolsover 005C | 1,217 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Bolsover 005D | 1,093 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Bolsover 005F | 1,311 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
Your MP
- Natalie FleetLabourMP for Bolsover
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 Bolsover1
Middle areas in Bolsover2
Towns near Bolsover6
Bolsover in brief
Bolsover is a town in Bolsover, East Midlands.
About 12,184 people lived in Bolsover in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £191,389 in 2025 across 267 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bolsover was £191,389 in 2025.
Bolsover had 11,228 usual residents at the census.
About 82% of people in Bolsover live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bolsover, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.