Brandon
TownTown in West Suffolk, East of England.
Brandon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brandon 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 76% of people in Brandon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brandon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brandon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brandon at a rate of 59.1 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, 49 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brandon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (259), other crime (110) and criminal damage and arson (52).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brandon was 74.2 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 Brandon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brandon has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brandon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Suffolk 002A | 1,664 | 16.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.4% |
| West Suffolk 002B | 2,426 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 58.2% |
| West Suffolk 002C | 1,853 | 74.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 69.0% |
| West Suffolk 002D | 2,150 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.7% |
| West Suffolk 002E | 1,597 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.6% |
Your MP
- Nick TimothyConservativeMP for West Suffolk
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 Brandon1
Middle areas in Brandon1
Towns near Brandon6
Brandon in brief
Brandon is a town in West Suffolk, East of England.
About 9,311 people lived in Brandon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 169 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brandon was £225,000 in 2025.
Brandon had 9,218 usual residents at the census.
About 76% of people in Brandon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brandon, 80.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.