Dereham
TownTown in Breckland, East of England.
Dereham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dereham 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 29% of people in Dereham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dereham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dereham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dereham at a rate of 79.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 127 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dereham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (701), other crime (291) and shoplifting (236).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dereham was 81.5 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 Dereham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dereham has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dereham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breckland 003A | 2,701 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.9% |
| Breckland 003B | 1,433 | 134.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.4% |
| Breckland 003C | 2,348 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.8% |
| Breckland 003D | 1,175 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 68.7% |
| Breckland 004D | 1,606 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Breckland 005A | 2,034 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
| Breckland 005B | 2,320 | 293.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.3% |
| Breckland 005C | 2,477 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.4% |
| Breckland 005D | 1,448 | 27.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| Breckland 005E | 1,391 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.0% |
| Breckland 005F | 1,934 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.8% |
Your MP
- George FreemanConservativeMP for Mid Norfolk
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 Dereham2
Middle areas in Dereham2
Towns near Dereham6
Dereham in brief
Dereham is a town in Breckland, East of England.
About 21,436 people lived in Dereham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £242,250 in 2025 across 360 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dereham was £242,250 in 2025.
Dereham had 20,788 usual residents at the census.
About 29% of people in Dereham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dereham, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.