Desborough
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Desborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Desborough 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 100% of people in Desborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Desborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Desborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Desborough at a rate of 76.4 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, 91 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Desborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (294), anti-social behaviour (284) and other crime (102).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Desborough was 64.9 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 Desborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Desborough has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Desborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 013A | 1,560 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 013B | 1,638 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 013C | 1,293 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| North Northamptonshire 013D | 1,316 | 59.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 013E | 1,233 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 013F | 1,637 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 013G | 2,087 | 144.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 013H | 1,139 | 91.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
Your MP
- Rosie WrightingLabourMP for Kettering
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 Desborough1
Middle areas in Desborough1
Towns near Desborough6
Desborough in brief
Desborough is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 11,866 people lived in Desborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £290,000 in 2025 across 271 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Desborough was £290,000 in 2025.
Desborough had 11,899 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Desborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Desborough, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.