Brackley
TownTown in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Brackley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brackley 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 96% of people in Brackley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brackley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brackley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brackley at a rate of 37.5 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, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brackley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (257), anti-social behaviour (146) and other crime (89).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brackley was 38.1 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 Brackley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brackley has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brackley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Northamptonshire 051A | 1,480 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| West Northamptonshire 051B | 1,570 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| West Northamptonshire 051C | 1,544 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| West Northamptonshire 051D | 1,491 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| West Northamptonshire 051E | 2,329 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 051F | 2,271 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.2% |
| West Northamptonshire 053A | 1,458 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.7% |
| West Northamptonshire 053B | 1,140 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| West Northamptonshire 053C | 1,252 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 053D | 1,652 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Sarah BoolConservativeMP for South Northamptonshire
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 Brackley1
Middle areas in Brackley2
Towns near Brackley6
Brackley in brief
Brackley is a town in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 16,882 people lived in Brackley 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 336 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 37.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brackley was £330,000 in 2025.
Brackley had 16,180 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Brackley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brackley, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.