Mountsorrel
TownTown in Charnwood, East Midlands.
Mountsorrel is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mountsorrel 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 43% of people in Mountsorrel live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mountsorrel compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Mountsorrel safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Mountsorrel at a rate of 59.7 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, 72 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Mountsorrel.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (323), other crime (139) and anti-social behaviour (127).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Mountsorrel was 62.8 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 Mountsorrel, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mountsorrel has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Mountsorrel
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 012D | 1,851 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.0% |
| Charnwood 014A | 1,904 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.0% |
| Charnwood 014B | 1,577 | 116.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Charnwood 014C | 2,022 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.2% |
| Charnwood 014D | 1,514 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 014E | 2,905 | 59.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.4% |
| Charnwood 014F | 2,338 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.7% |
Your MP
- Mr Peter BedfordConservativeMP for Mid Leicestershire
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 Mountsorrel2
Middle areas in Mountsorrel1
Towns near Mountsorrel6
Mountsorrel in brief
Mountsorrel is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands.
About 13,141 people lived in Mountsorrel in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £286,000 in 2025 across 229 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Mountsorrel was £286,000 in 2025.
Mountsorrel had 12,879 usual residents at the census.
About 43% of people in Mountsorrel live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mountsorrel, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.