Stowmarket
TownTown in Mid Suffolk, East of England.
Stowmarket is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stowmarket 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 0% of people in Stowmarket live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stowmarket compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stowmarket safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stowmarket at a rate of 64.4 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, 152 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stowmarket.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (725), other crime (252) and shoplifting (132).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stowmarket was 60.1 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 Stowmarket, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stowmarket has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 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 Stowmarket
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Suffolk 008A | 1,544 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 65.9% |
| Mid Suffolk 008B | 1,489 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.9% |
| Mid Suffolk 008C | 1,489 | 111.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.3% |
| Mid Suffolk 008D | 1,638 | 55.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.0% |
| Mid Suffolk 009C | 1,637 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 54.6% |
| Mid Suffolk 009D | 2,094 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.7% |
| Mid Suffolk 010B | 1,441 | 213.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.3% |
| Mid Suffolk 010D | 1,623 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 77.4% |
| Mid Suffolk 010E | 1,600 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 52.0% |
| Mid Suffolk 010F | 2,034 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Mid Suffolk 010G | 1,805 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.7% |
| Mid Suffolk 010H | 2,752 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
Your MP
- Dr Peter PrinsleyLabourMP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
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 Stowmarket1
Middle areas in Stowmarket2
Towns near Stowmarket6
Stowmarket in brief
Stowmarket is a town in Mid Suffolk, East of England.
About 22,459 people lived in Stowmarket in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,500 in 2025 across 474 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stowmarket was £260,500 in 2025.
Stowmarket had 21,537 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Stowmarket live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stowmarket, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.