Mildenhall
TownTown in West Suffolk, East of England.
Mildenhall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mildenhall 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 39% of people in Mildenhall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mildenhall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mildenhall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mildenhall at a rate of 77.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 86 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mildenhall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (355), other crime (141) and criminal damage and arson (79).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Mildenhall was 82.7 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 Mildenhall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mildenhall has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Mildenhall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Suffolk 004A | 1,522 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 22.9% |
| West Suffolk 004B | 1,601 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.4% |
| West Suffolk 004C | 1,323 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 43.3% |
| West Suffolk 004D | 2,144 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 59.4% |
| West Suffolk 004E | 2,253 | 119.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 57.9% |
Your MP
- Nick TimothyConservativeMP for West Suffolk
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 Mildenhall1
Middle areas in Mildenhall1
Towns near Mildenhall6
Mildenhall in brief
Mildenhall is a town in West Suffolk, East of England.
About 10,042 people lived in Mildenhall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 131 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 77.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Mildenhall was £250,000 in 2025.
Mildenhall had 9,684 usual residents at the census.
About 39% of people in Mildenhall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mildenhall, 58.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.