Oadby
TownTown in Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands.
Oadby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oadby 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 94% of people in Oadby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oadby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oadby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oadby at a rate of 52.4 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, 146 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oadby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (518), other crime (277) and anti-social behaviour (194).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oadby was 51.7 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 Oadby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oadby has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Oadby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oadby and Wigston 003A | 1,735 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 003B | 1,207 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 003C | 1,328 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Oadby and Wigston 003D | 1,365 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Oadby and Wigston 003E | 1,535 | 161.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 003F | 1,652 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 010A | 2,042 | 57.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.5% |
| Oadby and Wigston 010B | 1,391 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 010C | 2,590 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
| Oadby and Wigston 010D | 1,420 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 011A | 1,410 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 011B | 1,969 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 011C | 1,418 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Oadby and Wigston 011D | 1,255 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 011E | 1,713 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Neil O'BrienConservativeMP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
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 Oadby1
Middle areas in Oadby3
Towns near Oadby6
Oadby in brief
Oadby is a town in Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands.
About 25,474 people lived in Oadby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £338,501 in 2025 across 308 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 52.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Oadby was £338,501 in 2025.
Oadby had 24,039 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Oadby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oadby, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.