Thorne
TownTown in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Thorne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thorne 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 Thorne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thorne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thorne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thorne at a rate of 90.3 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, 92 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thorne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (479), other crime (211) and anti-social behaviour (154).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thorne was 103.0 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 Thorne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thorne has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thorne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster 001D | 1,953 | 93.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Doncaster 003A | 1,584 | 70.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Doncaster 003B | 1,535 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.1% |
| Doncaster 003C | 1,530 | 96.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Doncaster 003D | 2,156 | 170.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.4% |
| Doncaster 003E | 1,570 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 64.5% |
| Doncaster 003F | 1,420 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Doncaster 003G | 1,589 | 63.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Lee PitcherLabourMP for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
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 Thorne1
Middle areas in Thorne1
Towns near Thorne6
Thorne in brief
Thorne is a town in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 12,628 people lived in Thorne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 159 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thorne was £160,000 in 2025.
Thorne had 12,303 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Thorne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thorne, 89.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.