St Ives
TownTown in Huntingdonshire, East of England.
St Ives is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for St Ives 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 53% of people in St Ives live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How St Ives compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is St Ives safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in St Ives at a rate of 65.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 105 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in St Ives.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (413), anti-social behaviour (223) and other crime (195).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in St Ives was 64.3 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 St Ives, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so St Ives has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in St Ives
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdonshire 011A | 1,361 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Huntingdonshire 011B | 1,448 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| Huntingdonshire 011C | 1,335 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| Huntingdonshire 011D | 1,253 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Huntingdonshire 011E | 1,238 | 49.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| Huntingdonshire 011F | 1,343 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| Huntingdonshire 011G | 1,622 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Huntingdonshire 013A | 1,503 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| Huntingdonshire 013B | 1,439 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Huntingdonshire 013C | 2,029 | 174.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.3% |
| Huntingdonshire 013D | 2,248 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
Your MP
- Ben Obese-JectyConservativeMP for Huntingdon
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 St Ives1
Middle areas in St Ives2
Towns near St Ives6
St Ives in brief
St Ives is a town in Huntingdonshire, East of England.
About 17,355 people lived in St Ives in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £311,250 in 2025 across 252 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 65.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in St Ives was £311,250 in 2025.
St Ives had 16,818 usual residents at the census.
About 53% of people in St Ives live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In St Ives, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.