Kirkby-in-Ashfield
TownTown in Ashfield, East Midlands.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kirkby-in-Ashfield 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 78% of people in Kirkby-in-Ashfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kirkby-in-Ashfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kirkby-in-Ashfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kirkby-in-Ashfield at a rate of 109.7 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, 186 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (752), anti-social behaviour (442) and other crime (381).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kirkby-in-Ashfield was 94.2 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kirkby-in-Ashfield has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield 007A | 1,449 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Ashfield 007B | 1,624 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Ashfield 007C | 1,523 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.1% |
| Ashfield 007D | 1,642 | 69.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| Ashfield 008A | 1,843 | 374.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.2% |
| Ashfield 008B | 1,289 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Ashfield 008C | 1,520 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Ashfield 008D | 1,512 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Ashfield 009A | 1,653 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.6% |
| Ashfield 009B | 2,153 | 120.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Ashfield 009C | 2,318 | 103.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.2% |
| Ashfield 009D | 1,310 | 41.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Ashfield 009E | 1,996 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Lee AndersonReform UKMP for Ashfield
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 Kirkby-in-Ashfield1
Middle areas in Kirkby-in-Ashfield3
Towns near Kirkby-in-Ashfield6
Kirkby-in-Ashfield in brief
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a town in Ashfield, East Midlands.
About 21,513 people lived in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £183,000 in 2025 across 295 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield was £183,000 in 2025.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield had 21,262 usual residents at the census.
About 78% of people in Kirkby-in-Ashfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.