Bury St Edmunds
TownTown in West Suffolk, East of England.
Bury St Edmunds is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bury St Edmunds 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 Bury St Edmunds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bury St Edmunds compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bury St Edmunds safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bury St Edmunds at a rate of 79.4 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, 253 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bury St Edmunds.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,527), other crime (683) and shoplifting (381).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bury St Edmunds was 84.3 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 Bury St Edmunds, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bury St Edmunds has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bury St Edmunds
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Suffolk 009A | 1,396 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| West Suffolk 009B | 1,252 | 104.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 009C | 1,620 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| West Suffolk 009D | 1,229 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 009E | 1,502 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 011A | 1,835 | 325.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.2% |
| West Suffolk 011B | 1,615 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| West Suffolk 011C | 1,604 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| West Suffolk 011D | 1,150 | 81.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| West Suffolk 011E | 1,078 | 173.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| West Suffolk 011F | 1,096 | 105.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| West Suffolk 012A | 1,126 | 23.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| West Suffolk 012B | 1,309 | 14.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 012C | 1,319 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 012D | 1,403 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| West Suffolk 012E | 1,321 | 59.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| West Suffolk 012F | 1,211 | 49.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| West Suffolk 013A | 1,624 | 134.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| West Suffolk 013B | 1,411 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| West Suffolk 013C | 1,267 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 83.1% |
| West Suffolk 013D | 1,467 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| West Suffolk 013E | 1,415 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| West Suffolk 013F | 1,138 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.3% |
| West Suffolk 014A | 1,485 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.6% |
| West Suffolk 014B | 1,653 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| West Suffolk 014C | 1,596 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| West Suffolk 014D | 1,383 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| West Suffolk 014E | 1,179 | 13.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| West Suffolk 014F | 1,451 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| West Suffolk 016D | 1,569 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
Your MP
- Dr Peter PrinsleyLabourMP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
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 Bury St Edmunds2
Middle areas in Bury St Edmunds5
Towns near Bury St Edmunds6
Bury St Edmunds in brief
Bury St Edmunds is a town in West Suffolk, East of England.
About 43,440 people lived in Bury St Edmunds in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £288,500 in 2025 across 736 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bury St Edmunds was £288,500 in 2025.
Bury St Edmunds had 41,279 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bury St Edmunds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bury St Edmunds, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.