Wellingborough
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Wellingborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wellingborough 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 98% of people in Wellingborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wellingborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wellingborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wellingborough at a rate of 113.8 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, 561 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wellingborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,220), anti-social behaviour (1,557) and other crime (886).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wellingborough was 124.6 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 Wellingborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wellingborough has no single figure. Of its 33 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wellingborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 028A | 1,817 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.4% |
| North Northamptonshire 028B | 1,545 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 028C | 1,572 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 028D | 2,263 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 028E | 1,515 | 160.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| North Northamptonshire 029A | 1,420 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 029B | 1,476 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 029C | 1,287 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 029D | 1,494 | 107.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 029E | 1,878 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 030A | 1,785 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 030B | 2,278 | 116.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 030C | 2,310 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 030D | 1,501 | 119.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 030E | 2,202 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 031A | 1,469 | 122.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 031B | 1,606 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 031C | 1,705 | 155.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 031D | 1,640 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 032A | 1,590 | 209.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 032B | 1,680 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| North Northamptonshire 032C | 1,506 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 032D | 1,377 | 576.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.4% |
| North Northamptonshire 032E | 1,139 | 462.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.2% |
| North Northamptonshire 033A | 1,481 | 115.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 033B | 1,680 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 033C | 1,343 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 033D | 1,540 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 036A | 1,576 | 184.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 036B | 1,573 | 134.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 036C | 1,567 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 036D | 2,137 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 036E | 1,760 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Gen KitchenLabourMP for Wellingborough and Rushden
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 Wellingborough1
Middle areas in Wellingborough7
Towns near Wellingborough6
Wellingborough in brief
Wellingborough is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 57,930 people lived in Wellingborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 713 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 113.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wellingborough was £245,000 in 2025.
Wellingborough had 54,421 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Wellingborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wellingborough, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.