Oakham
WardSouth Mansfield. About 3,102 people in 1.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 64% of people in Oakham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oakham compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oakham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oakham at a rate of 210.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 116.9 per 1,000 people across Mansfield.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oakham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (228), anti-social behaviour (175) and violence and sexual offences (133).
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 Mansfield
These figures are published for the whole of Mansfield, not for each ward, so they describe all of Mansfield and not Oakham alone. See Mansfield
Oakham in brief
Oakham had 3,105 usual residents at the census.
About 64% of people in Oakham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oakham, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Oakham, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.