Market Drayton
TownTown in Shropshire, West Midlands.
Market Drayton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Market Drayton 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 44% of people in Market Drayton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Market Drayton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Market Drayton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Market Drayton at a rate of 68.7 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, 69 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Market Drayton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (378), other crime (151) and anti-social behaviour (109).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Market Drayton was 77.2 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 Market Drayton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Market Drayton has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Market Drayton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire 005A | 2,206 | 173.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.5% |
| Shropshire 005B | 1,529 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.5% |
| Shropshire 005C | 2,717 | 33.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Shropshire 005D | 1,803 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.2% |
| Shropshire 005E | 1,267 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.9% |
| Shropshire 005F | 1,518 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.2% |
| Shropshire 005G | 1,548 | 51.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Helen MorganLiberal DemocratMP for North Shropshire
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Market Drayton1
Middle areas in Market Drayton1
Towns near Market Drayton6
Market Drayton in brief
Market Drayton is a town in Shropshire, West Midlands.
About 12,248 people lived in Market Drayton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 200 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Market Drayton was £225,000 in 2025.
Market Drayton had 12,062 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Market Drayton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Market Drayton, 93.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.