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Harworth and Bircotes

Town

Town in Bassetlaw, East Midlands.

Harworth and Bircotes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Harworth and Bircotes 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 0% of people in Harworth and Bircotes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£183,000
Joint 157th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
8,885
145th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Harworth and Bircotes compares

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

Harworth and BircotesMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Harworth and Bircotes is £183,000.
£183,000joint 7th cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Harworth and Bircotes is 8,885.
8,88513th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. Harworth and Bircotes is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Harworth and Bircotes is 96.4%.
96.4%joint 48th highest

Is Harworth and Bircotes safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Harworth and Bircotes at a rate of 99.5 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, 77 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Harworth and Bircotes.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (297), other crime (178) and anti-social behaviour (147).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Harworth and Bircotes was 79.6 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 Harworth and Bircotes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Harworth and Bircotes has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood

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

Neighbourhoods in Harworth and Bircotes

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Bassetlaw 001B2,01468.0 per 1,000697.5%
Bassetlaw 001C1,405126.7 per 1,000489.1%
Bassetlaw 001D1,531148.1 per 1,000297.9%
Bassetlaw 001E1,695111.8 per 1,000396.3%
Bassetlaw 001F2,24170.3 per 1,000398.7%

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Postcode districts covering Harworth and Bircotes1

Middle areas in Harworth and Bircotes1

Towns near Harworth and Bircotes6

Harworth and Bircotes in brief

Harworth and Bircotes is a town in Bassetlaw, East Midlands.

About 9,857 people lived in Harworth and Bircotes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £183,000 in 2025 across 221 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Harworth and Bircotes was £183,000 in 2025.

Harworth and Bircotes had 8,885 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Harworth and Bircotes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Harworth and Bircotes, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.