Clay Cross
TownTown in North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Clay Cross is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Clay Cross 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 87% of people in Clay Cross live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Clay Cross compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Clay Cross safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Clay Cross at a rate of 116.8 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, 110 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Clay Cross.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (531), other crime (196) and anti-social behaviour (173).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Clay Cross was 116.6 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 Clay Cross, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Clay Cross has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Clay Cross
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North East Derbyshire 012B | 2,329 | 81.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.2% |
| North East Derbyshire 012C | 1,349 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| North East Derbyshire 012D | 2,384 | 101.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 012E | 1,407 | 110.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.1% |
| North East Derbyshire 012F | 1,077 | 312.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.8% |
Your MP
- Louise Sandher-JonesLabourMP for North East Derbyshire
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 Clay Cross1
Middle areas in Clay Cross1
Towns near Clay Cross6
Clay Cross in brief
Clay Cross is a town in North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
About 9,749 people lived in Clay Cross in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £213,248 in 2025 across 142 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 116.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Clay Cross was £213,248 in 2025.
Clay Cross had 8,915 usual residents at the census.
About 87% of people in Clay Cross live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Clay Cross, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.