Swinton
TownTown in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Swinton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Swinton 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 100% of people in Swinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Swinton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Swinton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Swinton at a rate of 91.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 163 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Swinton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (686), other crime (268) and anti-social behaviour (218).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Swinton was 92.5 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 Swinton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Swinton has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Swinton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotherham 003A | 1,161 | 128.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 003B | 1,222 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Rotherham 003C | 1,553 | 28.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Rotherham 003D | 1,460 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.4% |
| Rotherham 003E | 1,550 | 249.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| Rotherham 003F | 1,600 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| Rotherham 004A | 2,192 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Rotherham 004B | 1,393 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| Rotherham 004C | 1,316 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 62.0% |
| Rotherham 004D | 1,327 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- John HealeyLabourMP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
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 Swinton1
Middle areas in Swinton2
Towns near Swinton6
Swinton in brief
Swinton is a town in Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 16,381 people lived in Swinton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £180,000 in 2025 across 204 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Swinton was £180,000 in 2025.
Swinton had 15,911 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Swinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Swinton, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.