Hadleigh
TownTown in Babergh, East of England.
Hadleigh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hadleigh 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 72% of people in Hadleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hadleigh compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hadleigh safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hadleigh at a rate of 50.6 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, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hadleigh.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (226), other crime (82) and anti-social behaviour (43).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hadleigh was 52.7 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 Hadleigh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hadleigh has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hadleigh
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babergh 004A | 1,982 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.1% |
| Babergh 004C | 1,121 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 57.4% |
| Babergh 004D | 1,176 | 16.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 47.5% |
| Babergh 004E | 1,295 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.4% |
| Babergh 004G | 1,747 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.6% |
| Babergh 004H | 1,433 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.8% |
Your MP
- James CartlidgeConservativeMP for South Suffolk
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 Hadleigh1
Middle areas in Hadleigh1
Towns near Hadleigh6
Hadleigh in brief
Hadleigh is a town in Babergh, East of England.
About 9,075 people lived in Hadleigh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £320,000 in 2025 across 133 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hadleigh was £320,000 in 2025.
Hadleigh had 8,638 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Hadleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hadleigh, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.