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Maltby

Town

Town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Maltby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maltby 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 100% of people in Maltby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£173,100
120th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
16,305
564th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
94.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Maltby compares

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

MaltbyMiddle
Median sale price114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from £125,000 to £410,000. The middle area is £207,498. Maltby is £173,100.
£173,10026th cheapest
Population114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021
Population: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 7,545 to 536,262. The middle area is 14,857. Maltby is 16,305.
16,30545th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 100.0%. Maltby is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Yorkshire and The Humber114 areas from 76.7% to 99.9%. The middle area is 96.2%. Maltby is 94.5%.
94.5%joint 32nd lowest

Is Maltby safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maltby at a rate of 95.0 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 141 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maltby.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (635), anti-social behaviour (257) and other crime (207).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maltby was 87.3 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 Maltby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maltby has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Maltby

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Rotherham 018B1,31732.6 per 1,000899.4%
Rotherham 018C1,27841.5 per 1,000795.1%
Rotherham 018D1,38135.2 per 1,000896.7%
Rotherham 018E1,57772.4 per 1,000395.7%
Rotherham 018F1,40574.2 per 1,000490.9%
Rotherham 020A1,58360.5 per 1,000495.6%
Rotherham 020B1,50550.7 per 1,000392.6%
Rotherham 020C1,44656.7 per 1,000295.5%
Rotherham 020D1,615184.5 per 1,000199.2%
Rotherham 020E1,536258.9 per 1,000187.5%
Rotherham 020F1,827135.7 per 1,000189.5%

Your MP

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 Maltby1

Middle areas in Maltby2

Towns near Maltby6

Maltby in brief

Maltby is a town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.

About 16,683 people lived in Maltby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £173,100 in 2025 across 220 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Maltby was £173,100 in 2025.

Maltby had 16,305 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Maltby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Maltby, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.