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Hucknall

Town

Town in Ashfield, East Midlands.

Hucknall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hucknall 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 79% of people in Hucknall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£225,000
Joint 348th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
35,848
308th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
79%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
98.3%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Hucknall compares

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

HucknallMiddle
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. Hucknall is £225,000.
£225,000joint 47th 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. Hucknall is 35,848.
35,84823rd most 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%. Hucknall is 79.0%.
79%44th most 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%. Hucknall is 98.3%.
98.3%joint 15th highest

Is Hucknall safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hucknall at a rate of 94.6 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, 280 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hucknall.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,266), other crime (590) and anti-social behaviour (576).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hucknall was 97.6 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 Hucknall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hucknall has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • 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 Hucknall

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Ashfield 013C1,30049.8 per 1,000998.7%
Ashfield 013D1,21348.8 per 1,000599.2%
Ashfield 013E1,42318.7 per 1,0001099.0%
Ashfield 013F1,36940.3 per 1,000794.2%
Ashfield 013G1,30367.7 per 1,000997.8%
Ashfield 013H1,231165.6 per 1,000293.1%
Ashfield 013I1,377108.4 per 1,000499.7%
Ashfield 013J1,41260.4 per 1,000794.4%
Ashfield 014A2,11689.5 per 1,000499.3%
Ashfield 014B2,072267.2 per 1,000398.7%
Ashfield 014C2,272173.4 per 1,000496.4%
Ashfield 014D1,518116.1 per 1,000399.0%
Ashfield 014E1,322102.7 per 1,000299.7%
Ashfield 015A2,21843.6 per 1,000898.9%
Ashfield 015B1,21322.0 per 1,000998.8%
Ashfield 015C1,31621.7 per 1,0008100.0%
Ashfield 015D1,431109.5 per 1,000496.6%
Ashfield 015E1,45552.8 per 1,000899.6%
Ashfield 016A1,47741.8 per 1,000699.6%
Ashfield 016B1,771148.4 per 1,000298.5%
Ashfield 016C1,531139.1 per 1,000199.8%
Ashfield 016D1,25167.7 per 1,000499.3%
Ashfield 016E2,84681.3 per 1,000498.7%

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Postcode districts covering Hucknall1

Middle areas in Hucknall4

Towns near Hucknall6

Hucknall in brief

Hucknall is a town in Ashfield, East Midlands.

About 37,440 people lived in Hucknall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 596 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 94.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Hucknall was £225,000 in 2025.

Hucknall had 35,848 usual residents at the census.

About 79% of people in Hucknall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Hucknall, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.