Is Worksop a good place to live?

Worksop has 43,435 residents, 49% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 91% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (11.9 per 1,000 a month) is above the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Worksop postcode.

Worksop recorded 11.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.

How many people live in Worksop?

43,435 people live in Worksop (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 43.9 km² — about 990 per km².

What are the schools like in Worksop?

There are 20 schools inside Worksop; 91% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Outwood Academy Valley, Gateford Park Primary School and Holy Family Catholic Primary School.

Worksop is a town in Bassetlaw, East Midlands, England, served by Shireoaks and Worksop railway stations.

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Living in Worksop

Worksop is a town in Bassetlaw, East Midlands, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Worksop postcode.

Worksop is a town of 43,435 people at 990 per km², where 49% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 10 of its 11 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 11.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

Mostly good schools
Mixed neighbourhoods
2 railway stations
Spacious
Higher crime than most towns
Fewer parks than most towns

43,435Worksop population

990people per km²

49%live in England's better-off half

11.9crimes per 1,000 a month

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schools stations parks43.9 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Worksop

What's in Worksop: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools91% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding20

●GP practices · hospitals9 pharmacies, 5 dentists5 · 1

●Rail stations · bus stopsShireoaks, Worksop2 · 353

●Parks & playing fields59.7 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)26

●Supermarkets13

●Libraries2

02 — Schools in Worksop

Best-rated schools in Worksop

1Outwood Academy ValleySecondaryGood 2Gateford Park Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 3Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 4Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimaryGood 5Prospect Hill Junior SchoolPrimaryGood

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 20 schools → Schools in Worksop

03 — Worksop crime rate

Worksop crime rate

11.9crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08

More than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 518 recorded crimes a month in all

Violent

ASB

Shoplifting

Public order

Vehicle

Burglary

England median for a town of this size · full bar = 10 per 1,000 a month · police.uk street-level data

04 — Questions about Worksop

Is Worksop a good place to live?: Worksop has 43,435 residents, 49% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 91% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (11.9 per 1,000 a month) is above the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Worksop postcode.
Is Worksop safe?: Worksop recorded 11.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.
How many people live in Worksop?: 43,435 people live in Worksop (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 43.9 km² — about 990 per km².
What are the schools like in Worksop?: There are 20 schools inside Worksop; 91% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Outwood Academy Valley, Gateford Park Primary School and Holy Family Catholic Primary School.
Where is Worksop?: Worksop is a town in Bassetlaw, East Midlands, England, served by Shireoaks and Worksop railway stations.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Worksop as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.