Ilkeston
TownTown in Erewash, East Midlands.
Ilkeston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ilkeston 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 36% of people in Ilkeston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ilkeston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ilkeston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ilkeston at a rate of 115.7 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, 391 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ilkeston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,055), other crime (773) and anti-social behaviour (615).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ilkeston was 118.1 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 Ilkeston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ilkeston has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 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 Ilkeston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erewash 001A | 1,411 | 172.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Erewash 001B | 1,439 | 108.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Erewash 001C | 1,550 | 187.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Erewash 001D | 1,289 | 92.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Erewash 001E | 1,338 | 93.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Erewash 003A | 1,951 | 134.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Erewash 003B | 1,860 | 131.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Erewash 003C | 1,362 | 329.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.8% |
| Erewash 003D | 1,529 | 260.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Erewash 003E | 1,764 | 245.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.7% |
| Erewash 003F | 1,268 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| Erewash 006A | 1,936 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Erewash 006B | 2,348 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Erewash 006C | 1,130 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Erewash 006D | 1,362 | 187.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Erewash 006E | 1,466 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Erewash 007A | 1,463 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Erewash 007B | 1,652 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Erewash 007C | 1,383 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Erewash 007D | 1,465 | 96.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Erewash 016A | 1,268 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Erewash 016B | 1,540 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Erewash 016C | 1,374 | 24.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| Erewash 016D | 1,708 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Erewash 016E | 1,212 | 11.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Adam ThompsonLabourMP for Erewash
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 Ilkeston1
Middle areas in Ilkeston5
Towns near Ilkeston6
Ilkeston in brief
Ilkeston is a town in Erewash, East Midlands.
About 39,463 people lived in Ilkeston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £180,000 in 2025 across 558 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 115.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ilkeston was £180,000 in 2025.
Ilkeston had 38,723 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Ilkeston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ilkeston, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.