Downham Market
TownTown in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England.
Downham Market is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Downham Market 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 48% of people in Downham Market live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Downham Market compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Downham Market safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Downham Market at a rate of 59.0 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, 43 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Downham Market.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (253), other crime (120) and anti-social behaviour (104).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Downham Market was 67.2 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 Downham Market, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Downham Market has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Downham Market
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017E | 1,628 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.6% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017F | 1,640 | 37.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.6% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017G | 2,125 | 85.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.3% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017H | 1,058 | 162.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 69.9% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017I | 1,177 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.5% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017J | 1,370 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 69.7% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017K | 1,117 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.5% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 017L | 1,232 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.8% |
Your MP
- Terry JermyLabourMP for South West 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 Downham Market1
Middle areas in Downham Market1
Towns near Downham Market6
Downham Market in brief
Downham Market is a town in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England.
About 11,309 people lived in Downham Market in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 233 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Downham Market was £260,000 in 2025.
Downham Market had 11,349 usual residents at the census.
About 48% of people in Downham Market live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Downham Market, 83.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.