Earl Shilton
TownTown in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
Earl Shilton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Earl Shilton 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 4% of people in Earl Shilton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Earl Shilton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Earl Shilton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Earl Shilton at a rate of 71.7 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Earl Shilton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (359), other crime (140) and anti-social behaviour (126).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Earl Shilton was 68.2 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 Earl Shilton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Earl Shilton has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Earl Shilton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006A | 1,649 | 42.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.4% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006B | 1,675 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006C | 1,906 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006D | 1,968 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.6% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006E | 1,804 | 100.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.3% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 006F | 1,628 | 116.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.6% |
Your MP
- Dr Luke EvansConservativeMP for Hinckley and Bosworth
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 Earl Shilton1
Middle areas in Earl Shilton1
Towns near Earl Shilton6
Earl Shilton in brief
Earl Shilton is a town in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
About 11,361 people lived in Earl Shilton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £240,000 in 2025 across 215 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Earl Shilton was £240,000 in 2025.
Earl Shilton had 10,885 usual residents at the census.
About 4% of people in Earl Shilton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Earl Shilton, 82.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.