Daventry
TownTown in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Daventry is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Daventry 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 83% of people in Daventry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Daventry compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Daventry safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Daventry at a rate of 88.8 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, 260 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Daventry.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (860), anti-social behaviour (721) and other crime (331).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Daventry was 88.5 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 Daventry, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Daventry has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Daventry
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Northamptonshire 010A | 1,160 | 108.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.6% |
| West Northamptonshire 010B | 1,373 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| West Northamptonshire 010C | 2,385 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| West Northamptonshire 010D | 1,549 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.3% |
| West Northamptonshire 010E | 1,585 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| West Northamptonshire 010F | 1,759 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 010G | 1,710 | 46.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.3% |
| West Northamptonshire 016A | 2,950 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| West Northamptonshire 016B | 1,568 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| West Northamptonshire 016C | 1,567 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.4% |
| West Northamptonshire 016D | 2,050 | 302.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 016E | 1,290 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 022A | 1,745 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| West Northamptonshire 022B | 1,959 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| West Northamptonshire 022C | 1,646 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| West Northamptonshire 022D | 1,831 | 154.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
Your MP
- Stuart AndrewConservativeMP for Daventry
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 Daventry1
Middle areas in Daventry3
Towns near Daventry6
Daventry in brief
Daventry is a town in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 28,196 people lived in Daventry in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,500 in 2025 across 477 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Daventry was £257,500 in 2025.
Daventry had 27,783 usual residents at the census.
About 83% of people in Daventry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Daventry, 94.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.