Worksop South
WardSouth west Bassetlaw. About 7,225 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 16 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 95% of people in Worksop South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Worksop South compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Worksop South safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Worksop South at a rate of 204.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 95.6 per 1,000 people across Bassetlaw.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 124 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Worksop South.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (377), shoplifting (367) and other crime (222).
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 Bassetlaw
These figures are published for the whole of Bassetlaw, not for each ward, so they describe all of Bassetlaw and not Worksop South alone. See Bassetlaw
Worksop South in brief
Worksop South had 7,046 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Worksop South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Worksop South, 86.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Worksop South, 3.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.