Higham Ferrers
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Higham Ferrers is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Higham Ferrers 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 96% of people in Higham Ferrers live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Higham Ferrers compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Higham Ferrers safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Higham Ferrers at a rate of 83.4 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, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Higham Ferrers.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (224), anti-social behaviour (188) and shoplifting (123).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Higham Ferrers was 76.7 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 Higham Ferrers, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Higham Ferrers has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Higham Ferrers
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 035A | 1,620 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 035B | 1,488 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 035C | 2,565 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 035D | 2,696 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 035E | 1,077 | 217.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
Your MP
- Gen KitchenLabourMP for Wellingborough and Rushden
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 Higham Ferrers1
Middle areas in Higham Ferrers1
Towns near Higham Ferrers6
Higham Ferrers in brief
Higham Ferrers is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 8,805 people lived in Higham Ferrers 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 154 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Higham Ferrers was £275,000 in 2025.
Higham Ferrers had 8,825 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Higham Ferrers live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Higham Ferrers, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.