Syston
TownTown in Charnwood, East Midlands.
Syston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Syston 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 Syston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Syston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Syston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Syston at a rate of 69.5 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Syston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (373), anti-social behaviour (145) and other crime (145).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Syston was 74.3 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 Syston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Syston has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 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 Syston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 017A | 1,893 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.1% |
| Charnwood 017B | 1,328 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 017C | 1,706 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| Charnwood 017D | 1,400 | 138.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| Charnwood 018A | 2,977 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 018B | 1,651 | 125.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Charnwood 018C | 1,229 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Charnwood 018D | 1,436 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Edward ArgarConservativeMP for Melton and Syston
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 Syston1
Middle areas in Syston2
Towns near Syston6
Syston in brief
Syston is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands.
About 13,392 people lived in Syston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £262,500 in 2025 across 206 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Syston was £262,500 in 2025.
Syston had 13,628 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Syston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Syston, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.