Towcester
TownTown in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Towcester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Towcester 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 33% of people in Towcester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Towcester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Towcester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Towcester at a rate of 54.3 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, 62 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Towcester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (249), anti-social behaviour (178) and other crime (109).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Towcester was 52.2 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 Towcester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Towcester has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Towcester
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Northamptonshire 045D | 1,580 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| West Northamptonshire 045E | 1,754 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.9% |
| West Northamptonshire 047B | 2,956 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| West Northamptonshire 047C | 1,504 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| West Northamptonshire 047D | 2,189 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.4% |
| West Northamptonshire 047E | 1,561 | 87.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.0% |
Your MP
- Sarah BoolConservativeMP for South Northamptonshire
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 Towcester1
Middle areas in Towcester1
Towns near Towcester6
Towcester in brief
Towcester is a town in West Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 12,623 people lived in Towcester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £331,589 in 2025 across 328 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Towcester was £331,589 in 2025.
Towcester had 11,333 usual residents at the census.
About 33% of people in Towcester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Towcester, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.