Wigston
TownTown in Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands.
Wigston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wigston 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 100% of people in Wigston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wigston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wigston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wigston at a rate of 67.5 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, 251 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wigston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (934), other crime (449) and anti-social behaviour (347).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wigston was 75.3 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 Wigston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wigston has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 Wigston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester 038E | 1,617 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Oadby and Wigston 005A | 1,741 | 205.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| Oadby and Wigston 005B | 1,739 | 72.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Oadby and Wigston 005C | 1,585 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Oadby and Wigston 005D | 1,470 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Oadby and Wigston 005E | 1,696 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Oadby and Wigston 006A | 1,244 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Oadby and Wigston 006B | 1,534 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.4% |
| Oadby and Wigston 006C | 1,666 | 122.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Oadby and Wigston 006D | 1,898 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Oadby and Wigston 006E | 1,773 | 123.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007A | 1,306 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007B | 1,408 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007C | 1,419 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007D | 2,239 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007E | 1,220 | 11.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 007F | 1,378 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Oadby and Wigston 008A | 1,537 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Oadby and Wigston 008B | 1,630 | 102.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Oadby and Wigston 008C | 1,777 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Oadby and Wigston 008D | 2,002 | 78.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| Oadby and Wigston 008E | 1,458 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Neil O'BrienConservativeMP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
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 Wigston2
Middle areas in Wigston4
Towns near Wigston6
Wigston in brief
Wigston is a town in Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands.
About 37,310 people lived in Wigston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 450 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wigston was £260,000 in 2025.
Wigston had 34,728 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wigston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wigston, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.