Cottingham
TownTown in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Cottingham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cottingham 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Cottingham, 99.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Cottingham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cottingham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cottingham at a rate of 68.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 102 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cottingham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (366), other crime (230) and shoplifting (165).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cottingham was 63.3 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 Cottingham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cottingham has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 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 Cottingham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire 022A | 1,440 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 022B | 1,165 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 022C | 1,012 | 14.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 022D | 2,206 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 023B | 1,605 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 023C | 1,468 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 023D | 1,168 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 025A | 1,364 | 135.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 025B | 1,629 | 114.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 025C | 1,425 | 68.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
Your MP
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 Cottingham1
Middle areas in Cottingham3
Towns near Cottingham6
Cottingham in brief
Cottingham is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 15,529 people lived in Cottingham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 293 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cottingham was £245,000 in 2025.
Cottingham had 14,427 usual residents at the census.
In Cottingham, 99.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Cottingham, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.