Rawmarsh
TownTown in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Rawmarsh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rawmarsh 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 Rawmarsh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rawmarsh compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rawmarsh safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rawmarsh at a rate of 149.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 256 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rawmarsh.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (934), shoplifting (626) and other crime (418).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rawmarsh was 123.0 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 Rawmarsh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rawmarsh has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rawmarsh
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotherham 005A | 1,398 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Rotherham 005B | 1,954 | 110.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Rotherham 005C | 1,397 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 005D | 1,474 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 005E | 1,467 | 238.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 006A | 1,326 | 54.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Rotherham 006B | 1,375 | 161.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Rotherham 006C | 1,423 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 006D | 1,445 | 117.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 008A | 1,355 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 008B | 1,542 | 109.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Rotherham 008C | 1,700 | 184.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 008D | 1,719 | 483.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.2% |
Your MP
- John HealeyLabourMP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
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 Rawmarsh1
Middle areas in Rawmarsh3
Towns near Rawmarsh6
Rawmarsh in brief
Rawmarsh is a town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 19,402 people lived in Rawmarsh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 218 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 149.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rawmarsh was £160,000 in 2025.
Rawmarsh had 18,892 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Rawmarsh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rawmarsh, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.