Buxton
TownTown in High Peak, East Midlands.
Buxton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buxton 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 100% of people in Buxton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Buxton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Buxton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Buxton at a rate of 104.6 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, 192 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Buxton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (902), other crime (360) and anti-social behaviour (294).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Buxton was 99.5 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 Buxton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Buxton has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Buxton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Peak 010A | 1,705 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.6% |
| High Peak 010B | 1,294 | 199.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.5% |
| High Peak 010C | 1,086 | 362.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 63.8% |
| High Peak 010D | 1,784 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.9% |
| High Peak 010E | 1,737 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 56.3% |
| High Peak 011A | 1,220 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.9% |
| High Peak 011B | 1,181 | 138.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.9% |
| High Peak 011C | 1,478 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.9% |
| High Peak 011D | 1,347 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.9% |
| High Peak 011E | 1,646 | 140.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| High Peak 012A | 2,588 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.3% |
| High Peak 012B | 1,486 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.8% |
| High Peak 012D | 1,728 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Jon PearceLabourMP for High Peak
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 Buxton1
Middle areas in Buxton3
Towns near Buxton6
Buxton in brief
Buxton is a town in High Peak, East Midlands.
About 20,560 people lived in Buxton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £244,315 in 2025 across 336 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 104.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Buxton was £244,315 in 2025.
Buxton had 20,048 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Buxton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Buxton, 86.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.