Swadlincote
TownTown in South Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Swadlincote is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Swadlincote 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 11% of people in Swadlincote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Swadlincote compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Swadlincote safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Swadlincote at a rate of 81.4 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, 244 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Swadlincote.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,370), other crime (515) and anti-social behaviour (334).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Swadlincote was 89.8 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 Swadlincote, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Swadlincote has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Swadlincote
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Derbyshire 007A | 1,529 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| South Derbyshire 007B | 1,459 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| South Derbyshire 007C | 1,410 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| South Derbyshire 007D | 1,510 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| South Derbyshire 007E | 1,652 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.0% |
| South Derbyshire 008A | 1,158 | 83.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| South Derbyshire 008B | 1,740 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| South Derbyshire 008C | 1,642 | 88.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| South Derbyshire 008D | 1,530 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Derbyshire 008E | 1,361 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| South Derbyshire 008F | 1,258 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| South Derbyshire 009A | 1,840 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| South Derbyshire 009B | 2,076 | 318.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.4% |
| South Derbyshire 009C | 1,456 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| South Derbyshire 009D | 2,078 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| South Derbyshire 012A | 2,037 | 100.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.6% |
| South Derbyshire 012B | 1,494 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| South Derbyshire 012D | 1,833 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.0% |
| South Derbyshire 012E | 1,617 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| South Derbyshire 012F | 1,803 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| South Derbyshire 012G | 1,656 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| South Derbyshire 013D | 1,497 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
Your MP
- Samantha NiblettLabourMP for South Derbyshire
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 Swadlincote1
Middle areas in Swadlincote4
Towns near Swadlincote6
Swadlincote in brief
Swadlincote is a town in South Derbyshire, East Midlands.
About 36,877 people lived in Swadlincote in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 677 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Swadlincote was £220,000 in 2025.
Swadlincote had 34,569 usual residents at the census.
About 11% of people in Swadlincote live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Swadlincote, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.