Matlock
TownTown in Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands.
Matlock is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Matlock 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 Matlock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Matlock compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Matlock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Matlock at a rate of 85.2 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, 93 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Matlock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (400), other crime (185) and anti-social behaviour (177).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Matlock was 85.8 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 Matlock, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Matlock has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Matlock
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire Dales 005A | 2,598 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 78.5% |
| Derbyshire Dales 005B | 1,399 | 37.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.8% |
| Derbyshire Dales 005C | 1,419 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Derbyshire Dales 005D | 1,225 | 179.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.2% |
| Derbyshire Dales 005F | 1,573 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Derbyshire Dales 006C | 1,376 | 199.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 64.6% |
| Derbyshire Dales 006D | 1,601 | 167.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 81.3% |
| Derbyshire Dales 006E | 1,386 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.7% |
Your MP
- John WhitbyLabourMP for Derbyshire Dales
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 Matlock1
Middle areas in Matlock1
Towns near Matlock6
Matlock in brief
Matlock is a town in Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands.
About 11,918 people lived in Matlock in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 208 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Matlock was £275,000 in 2025.
Matlock had 11,990 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Matlock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Matlock, 86.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.