Oakham
TownTown in Rutland, East Midlands.
Oakham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oakham 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 Oakham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oakham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oakham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oakham at a rate of 57.1 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, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oakham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (228), other crime (121) and anti-social behaviour (110).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oakham was 60.9 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 Oakham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oakham has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 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 Oakham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutland 002B | 1,502 | 31.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Rutland 002F | 1,202 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Rutland 002G | 1,370 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| Rutland 003A | 1,332 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Rutland 003B | 1,667 | 124.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Rutland 003D | 2,258 | 35.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Rutland 003E | 1,353 | 17.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Rutland 003F | 1,260 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Alicia KearnsConservativeMP for Rutland and Stamford
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 Oakham1
Middle areas in Oakham1
Towns near Oakham6
Oakham in brief
Oakham is a town in Rutland, East Midlands.
About 12,309 people lived in Oakham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £290,000 in 2025 across 252 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Oakham was £290,000 in 2025.
Oakham had 12,159 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Oakham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oakham, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.