Heanor
TownTown in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
Heanor is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heanor 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 89% of people in Heanor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heanor compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heanor safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heanor at a rate of 110.0 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, 252 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heanor.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,079), anti-social behaviour (495) and other crime (442).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Heanor was 110.3 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 Heanor, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heanor has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Heanor
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley 008C | 1,912 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Amber Valley 012A | 1,372 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Amber Valley 012B | 1,851 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Amber Valley 012C | 1,590 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Amber Valley 012D | 2,112 | 61.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Amber Valley 013A | 1,154 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Amber Valley 013B | 1,684 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Amber Valley 013C | 1,364 | 97.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Amber Valley 013D | 1,565 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Amber Valley 013E | 1,598 | 170.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.9% |
| Amber Valley 017A | 1,432 | 108.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Amber Valley 017B | 1,617 | 201.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Amber Valley 017C | 1,647 | 149.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Amber Valley 017D | 2,046 | 236.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.9% |
| Amber Valley 017E | 1,263 | 138.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.9% |
Your MP
- Linsey FarnsworthLabourMP for Amber Valley
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 Heanor2
Middle areas in Heanor3
Towns near Heanor6
Heanor in brief
Heanor is a town in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
About 24,701 people lived in Heanor in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £192,000 in 2025 across 371 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Heanor was £192,000 in 2025.
Heanor had 24,264 usual residents at the census.
About 89% of people in Heanor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heanor, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.