Brimington
TownTown in Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
Brimington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brimington 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Brimington, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Brimington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brimington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brimington at a rate of 76.8 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, 82 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brimington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (493), other crime (166) and anti-social behaviour (93).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brimington was 73.3 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 Brimington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brimington has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brimington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterfield 003C | 1,452 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.3% |
| Chesterfield 003D | 1,604 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Chesterfield 005A | 1,198 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Chesterfield 005C | 1,374 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Chesterfield 005D | 1,435 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.5% |
| Chesterfield 005E | 1,874 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| North East Derbyshire 007B | 1,257 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% |
| North East Derbyshire 007D | 1,085 | 196.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Mr Toby PerkinsLabourMP for Chesterfield
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Brimington sits in2
Postcode districts covering Brimington2
Middle areas in Brimington2
Towns near Brimington6
Brimington in brief
Brimington is a town in Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire, East Midlands.
About 11,496 people lived in Brimington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £188,500 in 2025 across 192 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brimington was £188,500 in 2025.
Brimington had 11,068 usual residents at the census.
In Brimington, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Brimington, 3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.