Basford
WardNorth Nottingham. About 16,589 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 49% of people in Basford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Basford compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Basford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Basford at a rate of 112.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 159.7 per 1,000 people across Nottingham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 149 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Basford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (738), other crime (370) and anti-social behaviour (273).
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 Nottingham
These figures are published for the whole of Nottingham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Nottingham and not Basford alone. See Nottingham
Basford in brief
Basford had 16,367 usual residents at the census.
About 49% of people in Basford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Basford, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Basford, 5.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.