Dronfield
TownTown in North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Dronfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dronfield 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 Dronfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dronfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dronfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dronfield at a rate of 44.4 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dronfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (322), shoplifting (183) and other crime (158).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dronfield was 42.0 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 Dronfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dronfield has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dronfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North East Derbyshire 002A | 1,663 | 24.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| North East Derbyshire 002B | 1,564 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| North East Derbyshire 004A | 1,404 | 62.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| North East Derbyshire 004B | 1,430 | 86.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| North East Derbyshire 004C | 1,359 | 100.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 63.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 004D | 1,551 | 159.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 73.6% |
| North East Derbyshire 005B | 1,794 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 005C | 1,683 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 005D | 1,337 | 19.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 006A | 1,251 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| North East Derbyshire 006B | 1,206 | 17.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| North East Derbyshire 006C | 1,244 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| North East Derbyshire 006D | 1,411 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.0% |
| North East Derbyshire 006E | 2,266 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.5% |
Your MP
- Louise Sandher-JonesLabourMP for North East Derbyshire
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 Dronfield1
Middle areas in Dronfield3
Towns near Dronfield6
Dronfield in brief
Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
About 21,238 people lived in Dronfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 331 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 44.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dronfield was £300,000 in 2025.
Dronfield had 21,161 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Dronfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dronfield, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.