Melton Mowbray
TownTown in Melton, East Midlands.
Melton Mowbray is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Melton Mowbray 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 75% of people in Melton Mowbray live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Melton Mowbray compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Melton Mowbray safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Melton Mowbray at a rate of 83.2 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, 223 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Melton Mowbray.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (864), shoplifting (416) and other crime (376).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Melton Mowbray was 95.8 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 Melton Mowbray, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Melton Mowbray has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Melton Mowbray
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melton 002A | 2,028 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| Melton 002B | 1,566 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Melton 002C | 1,785 | 77.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Melton 002D | 2,235 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Melton 002E | 1,665 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| Melton 004A | 1,654 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.9% |
| Melton 004B | 2,211 | 161.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.0% |
| Melton 004C | 1,326 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.6% |
| Melton 004D | 1,312 | 161.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.2% |
| Melton 004E | 1,480 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Melton 004F | 1,637 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Melton 005A | 1,925 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Melton 005B | 1,613 | 219.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.2% |
| Melton 005C | 1,650 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Melton 005D | 1,845 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Melton 005E | 1,791 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.2% |
Your MP
- Edward ArgarConservativeMP for Melton and Syston
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 Melton Mowbray1
Middle areas in Melton Mowbray3
Towns near Melton Mowbray6
Melton Mowbray in brief
Melton Mowbray is a town in Melton, East Midlands.
About 28,662 people lived in Melton Mowbray in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £247,000 in 2025 across 599 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Melton Mowbray was £247,000 in 2025.
Melton Mowbray had 27,451 usual residents at the census.
About 75% of people in Melton Mowbray live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Melton Mowbray, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.