Rugby
TownTown in Rugby, West Midlands.
Rugby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rugby 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 6% of people in Rugby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rugby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rugby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rugby at a rate of 79.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 545 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rugby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,410), anti-social behaviour (1,540) and other crime (1,001).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rugby was 74.8 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 Rugby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rugby has no single figure. Of its 46 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rugby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rugby 002A | 1,184 | 88.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 002B | 1,148 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 002C | 1,718 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 002D | 1,350 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 002F | 1,737 | 109.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Rugby 002G | 1,674 | 243.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.0% |
| Rugby 002H | 1,882 | 158.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.2% |
| Rugby 003A | 1,466 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Rugby 003B | 1,672 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Rugby 003C | 1,919 | 380.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Rugby 003D | 2,215 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Rugby 005A | 1,930 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Rugby 005B | 1,843 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 005C | 1,946 | 155.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Rugby 005D | 1,423 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Rugby 006A | 1,369 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Rugby 006B | 2,893 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.7% |
| Rugby 006C | 2,107 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Rugby 006D | 1,720 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 007A | 1,483 | 31.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 007C | 1,686 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 007H | 1,487 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 008A | 1,392 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 008B | 1,522 | 20.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| Rugby 008C | 2,415 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Rugby 008D | 1,107 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 009A | 1,460 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.5% |
| Rugby 009B | 1,502 | 102.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Rugby 009C | 1,539 | 344.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.0% |
| Rugby 009D | 1,600 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Rugby 010A | 2,107 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Rugby 010B | 2,186 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.8% |
| Rugby 010C | 1,678 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Rugby 010D | 2,134 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Rugby 010E | 2,109 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Rugby 011A | 1,636 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| Rugby 011B | 1,555 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 011C | 1,839 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Rugby 011D | 1,477 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Rugby 011E | 1,564 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| Rugby 011F | 1,545 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Rugby 011G | 1,440 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
| Rugby 014A | 1,493 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Rugby 014B | 1,586 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.5% |
| Rugby 014C | 1,962 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
| Rugby 014E | 1,777 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.9% |
Your MP
- John SlingerLabourMP for Rugby
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 Rugby3
Middle areas in Rugby9
Towns near Rugby6
Rugby in brief
Rugby is a town in Rugby, West Midlands.
About 84,448 people lived in Rugby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £280,000 in 2025 across 1,225 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rugby was £280,000 in 2025.
Rugby had 78,130 usual residents at the census.
About 6% of people in Rugby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rugby, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.