Ripley
TownTown in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
Ripley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ripley 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 Ripley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ripley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ripley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ripley at a rate of 105.4 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, 167 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ripley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,027), other crime (388) and anti-social behaviour (263).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ripley was 115.2 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 Ripley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ripley has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ripley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley 005A | 1,373 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Amber Valley 005D | 1,326 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| Amber Valley 005E | 1,854 | 282.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.3% |
| Amber Valley 005F | 1,406 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Amber Valley 006B | 1,283 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Amber Valley 006C | 1,518 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Amber Valley 006D | 1,358 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
| Amber Valley 006E | 1,152 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.7% |
| Amber Valley 008A | 2,077 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Amber Valley 008B | 1,492 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Amber Valley 008D | 1,999 | 221.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.3% |
| Amber Valley 008E | 1,322 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Amber Valley 008F | 1,507 | 105.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Linsey FarnsworthLabourMP for Amber Valley
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 Ripley1
Middle areas in Ripley3
Towns near Ripley6
Ripley in brief
Ripley is a town in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
About 21,195 people lived in Ripley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £219,475 in 2025 across 376 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ripley was £219,475 in 2025.
Ripley had 20,191 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ripley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ripley, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.