Rotherham
TownTown in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Rotherham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rotherham 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 95% of people in Rotherham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rotherham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rotherham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rotherham at a rate of 156.2 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, 1,073 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rotherham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,068), other crime (2,098) and anti-social behaviour (1,706).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rotherham was 150.8 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 Rotherham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rotherham has no single figure. Of its 45 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 19 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 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 Rotherham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotherham 007B | 1,445 | 78.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% |
| Rotherham 009C | 1,394 | 212.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 009E | 1,297 | 107.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 009F | 1,232 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 011A | 1,527 | 104.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 011B | 1,409 | 133.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 011C | 1,465 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 011D | 1,373 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 011E | 1,433 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 013A | 1,402 | 131.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 013B | 1,431 | 171.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 013C | 1,627 | 164.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Rotherham 013D | 1,516 | 153.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Rotherham 013E | 1,525 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 014A | 1,634 | 128.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.3% |
| Rotherham 014B | 1,395 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 014C | 1,461 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 014D | 1,995 | 255.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 014E | 1,768 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 015A | 1,461 | 77.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 015B | 1,418 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 015C | 1,185 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Rotherham 015D | 1,446 | 169.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 015E | 1,620 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 015F | 1,449 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 016A | 1,931 | 130.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Rotherham 016B | 1,945 | 217.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Rotherham 016C | 1,771 | 184.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 016D | 1,559 | 126.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 017A | 1,983 | 139.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Rotherham 017B | 2,249 | 997.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.3% |
| Rotherham 017C | 1,494 | 258.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Rotherham 017D | 1,725 | 214.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Rotherham 021A | 1,691 | 117.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Rotherham 021B | 1,478 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 021C | 1,554 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 021D | 1,769 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Rotherham 021F | 1,737 | 102.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 023A | 1,958 | 159.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Rotherham 023B | 1,588 | 177.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Rotherham 023C | 1,966 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 023D | 1,909 | 125.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 023E | 2,034 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 023F | 1,632 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Rotherham 025A | 1,627 | 137.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.6% |
Your MP
- Sarah ChampionLabourMP for Rotherham
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 Rotherham3
Middle areas in Rotherham8
Towns near Rotherham6
Rotherham in brief
Rotherham is a town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 75,171 people lived in Rotherham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £172,875 in 2025 across 674 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 156.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rotherham was £172,875 in 2025.
Rotherham had 71,535 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Rotherham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rotherham, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.