Glossop
TownTown in High Peak, East Midlands.
Glossop is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Glossop 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 0% of people in Glossop live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Glossop compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Glossop safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Glossop at a rate of 70.9 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, 91 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Glossop.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (468), other crime (230) and anti-social behaviour (192).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Glossop was 83.9 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 Glossop, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Glossop has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Glossop
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Peak 003A | 1,463 | 140.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.3% |
| High Peak 003B | 1,846 | 237.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.2% |
| High Peak 003C | 1,151 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.6% |
| High Peak 003D | 1,286 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.8% |
| High Peak 003E | 2,303 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| High Peak 003F | 2,104 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| High Peak 004A | 2,161 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.3% |
| High Peak 004B | 1,152 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
| High Peak 004D | 1,736 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| High Peak 004E | 1,338 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| High Peak 004F | 1,531 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Jon PearceLabourMP for High Peak
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 Glossop1
Middle areas in Glossop2
Towns near Glossop6
Glossop in brief
Glossop is a town in High Peak, East Midlands.
About 17,863 people lived in Glossop in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 300 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Glossop was £275,000 in 2025.
Glossop had 17,820 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Glossop live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Glossop, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.