Irthlingborough
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Irthlingborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Irthlingborough 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 100% of people in Irthlingborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Irthlingborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Irthlingborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Irthlingborough at a rate of 73.7 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, 70 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Irthlingborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (266), anti-social behaviour (207) and other crime (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Irthlingborough was 74.5 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 Irthlingborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Irthlingborough has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Irthlingborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 027A | 1,944 | 102.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 027B | 2,101 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.2% |
| North Northamptonshire 027C | 1,750 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| North Northamptonshire 027D | 1,699 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 027E | 1,817 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
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 Irthlingborough1
Middle areas in Irthlingborough1
Towns near Irthlingborough6
Irthlingborough in brief
Irthlingborough is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 9,539 people lived in Irthlingborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 146 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Irthlingborough was £220,000 in 2025.
Irthlingborough had 9,308 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Irthlingborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Irthlingborough, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.