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Corby

Town

Town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.

Corby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Corby 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 86% of people in Corby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£225,000
Joint 348th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
68,164
161st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
86%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
94.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Corby compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

CorbyMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Corby is £225,000.
£225,000joint 47th cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Corby is 68,164.
68,1647th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Corby is 86.0%.
86%38th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Corby is 94.9%.
94.9%joint 42nd lowest

Is Corby safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Corby at a rate of 93.4 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, 585 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Corby.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,475), anti-social behaviour (1,391) and other crime (1,047).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Corby was 101.6 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 Corby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Corby has no single figure. Of its 40 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 9 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Corby

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
North Northamptonshire 002A1,77436.7 per 1,000587.1%
North Northamptonshire 002D2,26999.7 per 1,000496.1%
North Northamptonshire 003A1,78274.8 per 1,000496.6%
North Northamptonshire 003B1,71064.8 per 1,000599.7%
North Northamptonshire 003C1,83963.3 per 1,000499.6%
North Northamptonshire 003D1,66845.6 per 1,000386.9%
North Northamptonshire 003E1,23553.1 per 1,000597.2%
North Northamptonshire 003F1,09864.3 per 1,0003100.0%
North Northamptonshire 004A1,44262.0 per 1,000399.8%
North Northamptonshire 004B1,473132.0 per 1,000498.5%
North Northamptonshire 004C1,13177.5 per 1,000699.6%
North Northamptonshire 004D1,379108.4 per 1,000294.4%
North Northamptonshire 004E1,909115.4 per 1,000399.3%
North Northamptonshire 004F2,06469.2 per 1,000698.8%
North Northamptonshire 005A1,428409.1 per 1,000271.9%
North Northamptonshire 005B1,634133.7 per 1,000295.7%
North Northamptonshire 005C1,35556.2 per 1,000297.8%
North Northamptonshire 005D1,44597.1 per 1,000596.6%
North Northamptonshire 006A1,873291.0 per 1,000287.7%
North Northamptonshire 006B1,970166.1 per 1,000396.9%
North Northamptonshire 006C1,72340.4 per 1,000991.6%
North Northamptonshire 006D1,66835.7 per 1,000899.9%
North Northamptonshire 006G1,93553.5 per 1,000698.5%
North Northamptonshire 007A1,534142.8 per 1,000396.3%
North Northamptonshire 007B1,589156.9 per 1,000298.9%
North Northamptonshire 007C1,31865.4 per 1,000299.8%
North Northamptonshire 007D1,613114.2 per 1,000194.1%
North Northamptonshire 007E1,48977.3 per 1,000398.7%
North Northamptonshire 007F1,85396.0 per 1,000397.5%
North Northamptonshire 007G1,790179.4 per 1,000189.6%
North Northamptonshire 008A1,36753.6 per 1,000395.7%
North Northamptonshire 008B1,50777.2 per 1,000998.4%
North Northamptonshire 008C1,88890.4 per 1,000797.3%
North Northamptonshire 008D1,88736.2 per 1,0001098.3%
North Northamptonshire 008E2,72738.5 per 1,000998.8%
North Northamptonshire 008F2,64342.1 per 1,000997.7%
North Northamptonshire 009A1,404116.7 per 1,000699.5%
North Northamptonshire 009B1,57580.4 per 1,000293.7%
North Northamptonshire 009C1,38113.9 per 1,0001092.8%
North Northamptonshire 009D2,29279.3 per 1,000584.9%

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Postcode districts covering Corby2

Middle areas in Corby7

Towns near Corby6

Corby in brief

Corby is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.

About 71,015 people lived in Corby 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 866 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Corby was £225,000 in 2025.

Corby had 68,164 usual residents at the census.

About 86% of people in Corby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Corby, 94.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.