Rushden
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Rushden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rushden 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Rushden, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Rushden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rushden safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rushden at a rate of 107.9 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, 289 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rushden.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,028), anti-social behaviour (745) and shoplifting (489).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rushden was 102.6 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 Rushden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rushden has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 Rushden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 034A | 2,693 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 034B | 2,324 | 145.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 034C | 1,865 | 207.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| North Northamptonshire 034D | 1,631 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 034E | 1,779 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 034F | 2,059 | 75.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 037A | 1,791 | 103.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 037B | 1,756 | 108.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 037C | 2,205 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 037D | 1,898 | 187.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 037E | 1,708 | 196.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 039A | 2,079 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 039B | 1,733 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 039C | 1,533 | 157.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 039D | 1,425 | 46.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 039E | 1,513 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 039F | 1,698 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Gen KitchenLabourMP for Wellingborough and Rushden
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 Rushden1
Middle areas in Rushden3
Towns near Rushden6
Rushden in brief
Rushden is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 31,401 people lived in Rushden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £243,750 in 2025 across 504 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 107.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rushden was £243,750 in 2025.
Rushden had 31,689 usual residents at the census.
In Rushden, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rushden, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.