Hinckley
TownTown in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
Hinckley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hinckley 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 0% of people in Hinckley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hinckley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hinckley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hinckley at a rate of 76.7 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, 336 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hinckley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,461), other crime (674) and anti-social behaviour (510).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hinckley was 82.5 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 Hinckley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hinckley has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hinckley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinckley and Bosworth 008C | 2,274 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.5% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 009A | 1,580 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 009B | 1,365 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 009C | 1,787 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.5% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 009D | 1,908 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 010A | 1,500 | 78.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.4% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 010B | 1,992 | 317.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 010C | 2,185 | 179.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 010D | 1,693 | 60.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 010E | 1,746 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011B | 2,191 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011C | 1,404 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011D | 1,880 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011E | 1,447 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.8% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011F | 1,531 | 171.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.6% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 011G | 1,504 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 012A | 2,178 | 151.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.5% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 012B | 1,359 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 012C | 1,271 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 012D | 1,421 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 013A | 1,419 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 013B | 1,513 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.3% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 013C | 1,551 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 013D | 1,566 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014A | 1,247 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014B | 1,937 | 44.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.1% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014C | 2,054 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.4% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014D | 1,534 | 21.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014E | 2,514 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth 014F | 1,173 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Dr Luke EvansConservativeMP for Hinckley and Bosworth
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Hinckley1
Middle areas in Hinckley6
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Hinckley in brief
Hinckley is a town in Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands.
About 51,648 people lived in Hinckley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £267,000 in 2025 across 969 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hinckley was £267,000 in 2025.
Hinckley had 50,729 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hinckley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hinckley, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.