Wisbech
TownTown in Fenland, East of England.
Wisbech is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wisbech 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 Wisbech live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wisbech compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wisbech safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wisbech at a rate of 132.8 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, 333 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wisbech.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,427), other crime (677) and anti-social behaviour (625).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wisbech was 135.5 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 Wisbech, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wisbech has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wisbech
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenland 001C | 1,672 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.8% |
| Fenland 002A | 2,772 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.7% |
| Fenland 002B | 2,608 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Fenland 002C | 1,752 | 96.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Fenland 002D | 2,025 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Fenland 002E | 1,920 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Fenland 003A | 1,739 | 82.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Fenland 003B | 2,004 | 208.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.7% |
| Fenland 003C | 1,962 | 82.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.8% |
| Fenland 003E | 2,469 | 141.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.2% |
| Fenland 003F | 1,233 | 49.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Fenland 003G | 1,170 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Fenland 003H | 1,689 | 195.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.4% |
| Fenland 003I | 1,450 | 644.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.3% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk 013B | 1,242 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.3% |
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 Wisbech1
Middle areas in Wisbech2
Towns near Wisbech6
Wisbech in brief
Wisbech is a town in Fenland, East of England.
About 27,308 people lived in Wisbech in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 345 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 132.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wisbech was £200,000 in 2025.
Wisbech had 26,800 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wisbech live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wisbech, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.