Forest Town
TownTown in Mansfield and Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.
Forest Town is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Forest Town 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 1% of people in Forest Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Forest Town compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Forest Town safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Forest Town at a rate of 57.8 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, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Forest Town.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (470), other crime (215) and anti-social behaviour (196).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Forest Town was 53.2 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 Forest Town, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Forest Town has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Forest Town
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield 005A | 1,452 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.9% |
| Mansfield 007A | 1,592 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Mansfield 007B | 1,519 | 83.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Mansfield 007C | 1,717 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Mansfield 007D | 1,442 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.5% |
| Mansfield 007F | 1,925 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Mansfield 007G | 1,703 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Mansfield 007H | 1,529 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Newark and Sherwood 002A | 2,021 | 103.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.9% |
| Newark and Sherwood 002F | 1,403 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Newark and Sherwood 002G | 1,571 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Newark and Sherwood 002H | 1,450 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Steve YemmLabourMP for Mansfield
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Forest Town sits in2
Postcode districts covering Forest Town2
Middle areas in Forest Town2
Towns near Forest Town6
Forest Town in brief
Forest Town is a town in Mansfield and Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands.
About 19,518 people lived in Forest Town in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £217,048 in 2025 across 332 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Forest Town was £217,048 in 2025.
Forest Town had 19,015 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Forest Town live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Forest Town, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.