Dinnington
TownTown in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Dinnington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dinnington 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 81% of people in Dinnington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dinnington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dinnington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dinnington at a rate of 113.4 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, 101 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dinnington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (504), anti-social behaviour (250) and other crime (224).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dinnington was 112.6 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 Dinnington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dinnington has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dinnington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotherham 028B | 1,495 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.5% |
| Rotherham 028C | 1,580 | 129.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.7% |
| Rotherham 028D | 1,240 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 028F | 2,119 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.9% |
| Rotherham 029C | 1,364 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Rotherham 029D | 1,180 | 69.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| Rotherham 029E | 1,660 | 291.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.2% |
| Rotherham 029F | 1,375 | 126.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Jake RichardsLabourMP for Rother Valley
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 Dinnington1
Middle areas in Dinnington2
Towns near Dinnington6
Dinnington in brief
Dinnington is a town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 11,439 people lived in Dinnington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £194,000 in 2025 across 204 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 113.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dinnington was £194,000 in 2025.
Dinnington had 10,962 usual residents at the census.
About 81% of people in Dinnington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dinnington, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.