Anstey
WardSouth west Charnwood. About 7,837 people in 5.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in Anstey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Anstey compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Anstey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Anstey at a rate of 63.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 79.7 per 1,000 people across Charnwood.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 49 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Anstey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (195), anti-social behaviour (78) and other crime (73).
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.
Figures for the whole of Charnwood
These figures are published for the whole of Charnwood, not for each ward, so they describe all of Charnwood and not Anstey alone. See Charnwood
Anstey in brief
Anstey had 7,699 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Anstey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Anstey, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Anstey, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.