Thetford
TownTown in Breckland, East of England.
Thetford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thetford 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 Thetford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thetford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thetford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thetford at a rate of 94.8 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, 242 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thetford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,006), other crime (412) and anti-social behaviour (384).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thetford was 99.5 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 Thetford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thetford has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thetford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breckland 015A | 1,847 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 53.9% |
| Breckland 015B | 1,857 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 48.4% |
| Breckland 015C | 2,229 | 164.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 39.1% |
| Breckland 016A | 2,431 | 212.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.2% |
| Breckland 016B | 1,650 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 61.7% |
| Breckland 016C | 2,807 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.0% |
| Breckland 016D | 1,207 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Breckland 016E | 1,198 | 52.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 27.7% |
| Breckland 016F | 1,398 | 20.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 54.1% |
| Breckland 017A | 2,066 | 117.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 73.8% |
| Breckland 017B | 1,550 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 73.8% |
| Breckland 017C | 1,521 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 20.6% |
| Breckland 017D | 1,840 | 96.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.3% |
| Breckland 017E | 1,655 | 199.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 76.6% |
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 Thetford1
Middle areas in Thetford3
Towns near Thetford6
Thetford in brief
Thetford is a town in Breckland, East of England.
About 25,543 people lived in Thetford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £217,750 in 2025 across 274 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 94.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thetford was £217,750 in 2025.
Thetford had 25,502 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Thetford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thetford, 67.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.