Whittlesey
TownTown in Fenland, East of England.
Whittlesey is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whittlesey 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 Whittlesey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whittlesey compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whittlesey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whittlesey at a rate of 66.2 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, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whittlesey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (421), anti-social behaviour (214) and other crime (148).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whittlesey was 68.9 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 Whittlesey, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whittlesey has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whittlesey
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenland 006A | 2,493 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.4% |
| Fenland 006B | 2,398 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.9% |
| Fenland 006C | 1,219 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Fenland 006D | 1,196 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Fenland 006E | 1,270 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Fenland 006F | 1,218 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Fenland 006G | 1,426 | 115.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.8% |
| Fenland 006H | 1,460 | 119.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Fenland 008A | 1,441 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Steve BarclayConservativeMP for North East Cambridgeshire
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 Whittlesey1
Middle areas in Whittlesey1
Towns near Whittlesey6
Whittlesey in brief
Whittlesey is a town in Fenland, East of England.
About 15,033 people lived in Whittlesey in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £254,000 in 2025 across 308 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whittlesey was £254,000 in 2025.
Whittlesey had 13,833 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Whittlesey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whittlesey, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.