Mexborough
TownTown in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Mexborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mexborough 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 Mexborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mexborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mexborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mexborough at a rate of 140.1 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, 200 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mexborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,050), other crime (338) and anti-social behaviour (302).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Mexborough was 141.7 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 Mexborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mexborough has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Mexborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster 030A | 1,267 | 100.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 030B | 1,534 | 187.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Doncaster 030C | 2,802 | 109.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Doncaster 030D | 1,269 | 91.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 031A | 1,652 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Doncaster 031B | 1,325 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Doncaster 031C | 1,449 | 134.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 031D | 1,446 | 236.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Doncaster 031E | 1,417 | 111.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Doncaster 031F | 1,395 | 244.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Ed MilibandLabourMP for Doncaster North
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 Mexborough1
Middle areas in Mexborough2
Towns near Mexborough6
Mexborough in brief
Mexborough is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 16,207 people lived in Mexborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £137,500 in 2025 across 200 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 140.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Mexborough was £137,500 in 2025.
Mexborough had 15,560 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Mexborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mexborough, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.