Flitwick
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Flitwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Flitwick 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Flitwick, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Flitwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Flitwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Flitwick at a rate of 47.2 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, 61 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Flitwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (218), anti-social behaviour (129) and other crime (103).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Flitwick was 49.9 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 Flitwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Flitwick has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Flitwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 015A | 1,440 | 78.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 015B | 1,539 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 015C | 1,211 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 68.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 015D | 1,524 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 016A | 1,437 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 016B | 1,252 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 016C | 1,363 | 86.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 016D | 2,578 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.3% |
| Central Bedfordshire 016E | 1,512 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.0% |
Your MP
- Blake StephensonConservativeMP for Mid Bedfordshire
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 Flitwick1
Middle areas in Flitwick2
Towns near Flitwick6
Flitwick in brief
Flitwick is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 13,880 people lived in Flitwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £335,000 in 2025 across 231 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Flitwick was £335,000 in 2025.
Flitwick had 13,668 usual residents at the census.
In Flitwick, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Flitwick, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.