Whitwick
TownTown in North West Leicestershire, East Midlands.
Whitwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitwick 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 Whitwick, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Whitwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitwick at a rate of 52.5 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, 57 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (240), other crime (93) and anti-social behaviour (77).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitwick was 71.1 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 Whitwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitwick has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whitwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North West Leicestershire 004A | 1,444 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| North West Leicestershire 004B | 1,419 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| North West Leicestershire 004C | 1,703 | 63.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.2% |
| North West Leicestershire 007A | 1,474 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| North West Leicestershire 007B | 1,553 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| North West Leicestershire 007C | 1,827 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| North West Leicestershire 007D | 1,703 | 75.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.4% |
Your MP
- Amanda HackLabourMP for North West Leicestershire
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 Whitwick1
Middle areas in Whitwick2
Towns near Whitwick6
Whitwick in brief
Whitwick is a town in North West Leicestershire, East Midlands.
About 10,631 people lived in Whitwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £235,000 in 2025 across 135 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 52.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitwick was £235,000 in 2025.
Whitwick had 10,455 usual residents at the census.
In Whitwick, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Whitwick, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.