Leominster
TownTown in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
Leominster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leominster 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 Leominster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leominster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leominster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leominster at a rate of 98.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 93 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leominster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (445), other crime (197) and anti-social behaviour (176).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leominster was 122.0 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 Leominster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leominster has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leominster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herefordshire 002A | 1,491 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.3% |
| Herefordshire 002B | 1,602 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.4% |
| Herefordshire 002C | 1,035 | 26.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.6% |
| Herefordshire 002D | 1,539 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Herefordshire 003A | 1,637 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.8% |
| Herefordshire 003B | 1,549 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.3% |
| Herefordshire 003C | 1,452 | 124.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Herefordshire 003D | 1,650 | 246.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.1% |
Your MP
- Dr Ellie ChownsGreen PartyMP for North Herefordshire
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 Leominster1
Middle areas in Leominster2
Towns near Leominster4
Leominster in brief
Leominster is a town in Herefordshire, West Midlands.
About 11,247 people lived in Leominster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,500 in 2025 across 170 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leominster was £220,500 in 2025.
Leominster had 11,206 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Leominster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leominster, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.