Market Harborough
TownTown in Harborough, East Midlands.
Market Harborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Market Harborough 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 0% of people in Market Harborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Market Harborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Market Harborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Market Harborough at a rate of 63.6 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, 173 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Market Harborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (582), other crime (313) and shoplifting (217).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Market Harborough was 62.4 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 Harborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Market Harborough has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Market Harborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harborough 007B | 1,829 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Harborough 007D | 1,345 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.1% |
| Harborough 007E | 1,772 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Harborough 007G | 1,644 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Harborough 007H | 1,380 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.1% |
| Harborough 008A | 1,804 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.1% |
| Harborough 008B | 1,976 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
| Harborough 008C | 1,208 | 187.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.3% |
| Harborough 008D | 1,564 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.5% |
| Harborough 009A | 2,336 | 100.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.1% |
| Harborough 009B | 2,283 | 16.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Harborough 009C | 1,399 | 28.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Harborough 009D | 1,978 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Harborough 009E | 1,385 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
Your MP
- Neil O'BrienConservativeMP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
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 Market Harborough1
Middle areas in Market Harborough3
Towns near Market Harborough6
Market Harborough in brief
Market Harborough is a town in Harborough, East Midlands.
About 25,790 people lived in Market Harborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £315,000 in 2025 across 567 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 63.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Market Harborough was £315,000 in 2025.
Market Harborough had 24,162 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Market Harborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Market Harborough, 93.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.