Shirebrook
TownTown in Bolsover, East Midlands.
Shirebrook is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shirebrook 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 Shirebrook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shirebrook compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shirebrook safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shirebrook at a rate of 92.9 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, 90 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shirebrook.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (538), other crime (213) and anti-social behaviour (143).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shirebrook was 103.3 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 Shirebrook, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shirebrook has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shirebrook
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolsover 006A | 1,961 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Bolsover 006B | 1,346 | 148.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Bolsover 006C | 1,358 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Bolsover 006E | 1,604 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Bolsover 006F | 1,534 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Bolsover 007D | 1,858 | 167.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.9% |
| Bolsover 007E | 2,233 | 91.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.4% |
Your MP
- Natalie FleetLabourMP for Bolsover
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 Shirebrook1
Middle areas in Shirebrook1
Towns near Shirebrook6
Shirebrook in brief
Shirebrook is a town in Bolsover, East Midlands.
About 12,170 people lived in Shirebrook in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £150,000 in 2025 across 134 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shirebrook was £150,000 in 2025.
Shirebrook had 11,571 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Shirebrook live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shirebrook, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.