Yaxley
TownTown in Huntingdonshire, East of England.
Yaxley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Yaxley 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 Yaxley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Yaxley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Yaxley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Yaxley at a rate of 69.9 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, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Yaxley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (267), anti-social behaviour (126) and other crime (105).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Yaxley was 64.4 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 Yaxley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Yaxley has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Yaxley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntingdonshire 001B | 1,968 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.9% |
| Huntingdonshire 001C | 2,000 | 74.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Huntingdonshire 001D | 1,502 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Huntingdonshire 001E | 2,530 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.5% |
| Huntingdonshire 001F | 1,603 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sam CarlingLabourMP for North West 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 Yaxley1
Middle areas in Yaxley1
Towns near Yaxley6
Yaxley in brief
Yaxley is a town in Huntingdonshire, East of England.
About 9,694 people lived in Yaxley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £266,250 in 2025 across 156 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Yaxley was £266,250 in 2025.
Yaxley had 9,403 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Yaxley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Yaxley, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.