Rainworth
TownTown in Newark and Sherwood and Mansfield, East Midlands.
Rainworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rainworth 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 0% of people in Rainworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rainworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rainworth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rainworth at a rate of 95.4 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, 68 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rainworth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (421), anti-social behaviour (123) and other crime (113).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rainworth was 92.4 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 Rainworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rainworth has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rainworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield 012A | 1,330 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.4% |
| Newark and Sherwood 006A | 1,801 | 191.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Newark and Sherwood 006E | 1,484 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Newark and Sherwood 006F | 2,446 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| Newark and Sherwood 006G | 1,341 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Michelle WelshLabourMP for Sherwood Forest
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Rainworth sits in2
Postcode districts covering Rainworth1
Middle areas in Rainworth1
Towns near Rainworth6
Rainworth in brief
Rainworth is a town in Newark and Sherwood and Mansfield, East Midlands.
About 8,016 people lived in Rainworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £193,500 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rainworth was £193,500 in 2025.
Rainworth had 7,990 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rainworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rainworth, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.