Watton
TownTown in Breckland, East of England.
Watton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Watton 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 Watton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Watton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Watton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Watton at a rate of 53.3 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, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Watton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (332), other crime (110) and anti-social behaviour (91).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Watton was 48.2 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 Watton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Watton has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Watton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breckland 009A | 1,973 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 67.1% |
| Breckland 009B | 2,233 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 55.1% |
| Breckland 009C | 1,390 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 73.3% |
| Breckland 009D | 1,471 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.8% |
| Breckland 009E | 1,903 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 64.4% |
| Breckland 010F | 2,615 | 101.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.0% |
| Breckland 010G | 1,324 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.1% |
Your MP
- George FreemanConservativeMP for Mid 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 Watton1
Middle areas in Watton1
Towns near Watton6
Watton in brief
Watton is a town in Breckland, East of England.
About 12,016 people lived in Watton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £239,900 in 2025 across 227 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Watton was £239,900 in 2025.
Watton had 11,549 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Watton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Watton, 73.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.