Sudbury
TownTown in Babergh, East of England.
Sudbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sudbury 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 68% of people in Sudbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sudbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sudbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sudbury at a rate of 76.3 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, 175 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sudbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (904), other crime (286) and criminal damage and arson (210).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sudbury was 75.0 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 Sudbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sudbury has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sudbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babergh 003C | 1,998 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.3% |
| Babergh 007A | 1,884 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.8% |
| Babergh 007B | 1,078 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.3% |
| Babergh 007C | 1,583 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.8% |
| Babergh 007D | 1,201 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.6% |
| Babergh 007E | 1,344 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Babergh 007F | 1,121 | 223.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.4% |
| Babergh 007G | 1,567 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.0% |
| Babergh 007H | 1,841 | 215.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.9% |
| Babergh 008A | 1,321 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 64.1% |
| Babergh 008B | 2,022 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.1% |
| Babergh 008C | 1,305 | 61.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 27.2% |
| Babergh 008D | 1,377 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 25.2% |
| Babergh 008E | 1,741 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.8% |
| Babergh 008F | 2,184 | 48.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 62.5% |
Your MP
- James CartlidgeConservativeMP for South Suffolk
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 Sudbury1
Middle areas in Sudbury2
Towns near Sudbury6
Sudbury in brief
Sudbury is a town in Babergh, East of England.
About 24,696 people lived in Sudbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 389 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sudbury was £275,000 in 2025.
Sudbury had 23,922 usual residents at the census.
About 68% of people in Sudbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sudbury, 78.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.