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Great Malvern

Town

Town in Malvern Hills, West Midlands.

Great Malvern is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Great Malvern 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 31% of people in Great Malvern live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£292,975
438th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
33,194
335th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
31%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
89.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Great Malvern compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Great MalvernMiddle
Median sale price88 towns, West Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in West Midlands88 areas from £163,000 to £560,000. The middle area is £249,000. Great Malvern is £292,975.
£292,97516th most expensive
Population88 towns, West Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 7,552 to 1,121,367. The middle area is 26,281. Great Malvern is 33,194.
33,19436th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares88 towns, West Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 54.5%. Great Malvern is 31.0%.
31%28th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 77.4% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.4%. Great Malvern is 89.7%.
89.7%16th lowest

Is Great Malvern safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Malvern at a rate of 72.2 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 235 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Malvern.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (963), other crime (425) and anti-social behaviour (363).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Great Malvern was 74.3 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 Great Malvern, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Great Malvern has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Great Malvern

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Malvern Hills 004A1,63179.1 per 1,000382.8%
Malvern Hills 004B1,51552.4 per 1,000799.9%
Malvern Hills 004C1,700238.4 per 1,000694.1%
Malvern Hills 004D1,45424.7 per 1,000895.7%
Malvern Hills 006A1,90765.6 per 1,000698.6%
Malvern Hills 006B2,80437.6 per 1,000893.2%
Malvern Hills 006C1,39932.8 per 1,000991.8%
Malvern Hills 006D1,21649.6 per 1,000885.3%
Malvern Hills 006E1,36751.9 per 1,000699.4%
Malvern Hills 007A1,675130.6 per 1,000398.5%
Malvern Hills 007B1,68178.7 per 1,000280.1%
Malvern Hills 007C1,445103.5 per 1,000590.3%
Malvern Hills 007D1,653100.1 per 1,000194.6%
Malvern Hills 009A1,46340.3 per 1,000897.5%
Malvern Hills 009B1,48736.6 per 1,000997.0%
Malvern Hills 009C1,34966.3 per 1,000796.4%
Malvern Hills 009D1,69056.9 per 1,000396.4%
Malvern Hills 010A1,497167.2 per 1,000877.5%
Malvern Hills 010B1,60637.4 per 1,0001090.6%
Malvern Hills 010C1,13732.2 per 1,000860.8%
Malvern Hills 010E1,63420.4 per 1,0001035.8%

Your MP

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 Great Malvern1

Middle areas in Great Malvern5

Towns near Great Malvern6

Great Malvern in brief

Great Malvern is a town in Malvern Hills, West Midlands.

About 34,402 people lived in Great Malvern in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £292,975 in 2025 across 534 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Great Malvern was £292,975 in 2025.

Great Malvern had 33,194 usual residents at the census.

About 31% of people in Great Malvern live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Great Malvern, 89.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.