Wootton
TownTown in Bedford, East of England.
Wootton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wootton 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 Wootton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wootton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wootton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wootton at a rate of 36.5 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, 33 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wootton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (133), anti-social behaviour (67) and other crime (63).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wootton was 34.3 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 Wootton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wootton has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wootton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford 020C | 1,367 | 16.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Bedford 020D | 1,980 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.0% |
| Bedford 020E | 1,882 | 38.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.0% |
| Bedford 020F | 2,337 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.6% |
Your MP
- Blake StephensonConservativeMP for Mid Bedfordshire
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 Wootton1
Middle areas in Wootton1
Towns near Wootton6
Wootton in brief
Wootton is a town in Bedford, East of England.
About 8,350 people lived in Wootton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £395,000 in 2025 across 89 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 36.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wootton was £395,000 in 2025.
Wootton had 7,567 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wootton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wootton, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.