Somercotes and Swanwick
TownTown in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
Somercotes and Swanwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Somercotes and Swanwick 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 54% of people in Somercotes and Swanwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Somercotes and Swanwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Somercotes and Swanwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Somercotes and Swanwick at a rate of 97.6 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, 132 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Somercotes and Swanwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (660), other crime (254) and anti-social behaviour (222).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Somercotes and Swanwick was 94.5 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 Somercotes and Swanwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Somercotes and Swanwick has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Somercotes and Swanwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amber Valley 003B | 1,476 | 172.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.1% |
| Amber Valley 003C | 1,477 | 92.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.3% |
| Amber Valley 003D | 1,674 | 124.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Amber Valley 003E | 1,398 | 280.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Amber Valley 004A | 1,708 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Amber Valley 004B | 1,656 | 86.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Amber Valley 004C | 1,238 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.7% |
| Amber Valley 004D | 1,180 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Amber Valley 004E | 1,340 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.4% |
| Amber Valley 004F | 1,319 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Amber Valley 005C | 1,497 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.9% |
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 Somercotes and Swanwick1
Middle areas in Somercotes and Swanwick2
Towns near Somercotes and Swanwick6
Somercotes and Swanwick in brief
Somercotes and Swanwick is a town in Amber Valley, East Midlands.
About 15,342 people lived in Somercotes and Swanwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £204,950 in 2025 across 237 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 97.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Somercotes and Swanwick was £204,950 in 2025.
Somercotes and Swanwick had 15,105 usual residents at the census.
About 54% of people in Somercotes and Swanwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Somercotes and Swanwick, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.