Swaffham
TownTown in Breckland, East of England.
Swaffham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Swaffham 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 Swaffham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Swaffham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Swaffham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Swaffham at a rate of 71.0 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, 56 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Swaffham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (267), anti-social behaviour (117) and other crime (111).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Swaffham was 73.1 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 Swaffham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Swaffham has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Swaffham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breckland 007B | 1,197 | 49.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.9% |
| Breckland 007C | 1,320 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 73.0% |
| Breckland 007D | 1,729 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.8% |
| Breckland 007E | 1,535 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 68.1% |
| Breckland 007F | 1,232 | 171.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 50.1% |
| Breckland 007G | 1,552 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.2% |
Your MP
- Terry JermyLabourMP for South West Norfolk
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 Swaffham1
Middle areas in Swaffham1
Towns near Swaffham6
Swaffham in brief
Swaffham is a town in Breckland, East of England.
About 9,394 people lived in Swaffham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £265,000 in 2025 across 198 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Swaffham was £265,000 in 2025.
Swaffham had 8,434 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Swaffham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Swaffham, 75.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.