Thurmaston
TownTown in Charnwood, East Midlands.
Thurmaston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thurmaston 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 4% of people in Thurmaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thurmaston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thurmaston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thurmaston at a rate of 80.9 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, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thurmaston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (293), other crime (128) and anti-social behaviour (103).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thurmaston was 94.7 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 Thurmaston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thurmaston has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thurmaston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 021A | 1,581 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 021B | 1,703 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Charnwood 021C | 1,402 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 021D | 1,509 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 021E | 2,065 | 169.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 021F | 1,556 | 48.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
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 Thurmaston1
Middle areas in Thurmaston1
Towns near Thurmaston6
Thurmaston in brief
Thurmaston is a town in Charnwood, East Midlands.
About 9,726 people lived in Thurmaston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,475 in 2025 across 116 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thurmaston was £257,475 in 2025.
Thurmaston had 9,509 usual residents at the census.
About 4% of people in Thurmaston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thurmaston, 99.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.