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It is a town of 4,262 residents in Leicestershire, East Midlands.
Cheap to live in, with trade-offs. Homes are affordable: homes sell for a median £255,000, about 4.8 times local household income. What counts against it is safety — police record 29.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year, and 14.2 home and vehicle crimes. Set beside UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, its crime per resident is higher than in 73%. Put together, the subjects come to a B+ overall, better than 68% of UK towns. That places it #26 of 50 in Leicestershire. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for health and B for jobs & income.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · life expectancy and income, ONS · claimants, DWP.
The thing Ratby does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Ratby is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Ratby’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade II*.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ratby.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Scaled to its population, Ratby has 7 listed buildings per 10,000 people, lower than both Leicestershire’s towns (34) and England’s towns (39). Just over one in ten homes date from before 1919.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Below is its only school. Attainment 8 at the one secondary school within 3 km averages 48.9, and 50% of pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths. The town’s primary school has 359 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ratby Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 359 | B− |
Private renters make up 11% of households, below Leicestershire’s towns (19%) and England’s towns (21%) alike. From September 2023 to August 2026, 193 homes sold inside Ratby’s built-up area at standard prices; the middle one went for £255,000. That is the middle of 193 standard sales inside the town’s built-up area over three years, against £277,000 in the typical UK town.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £325,000 | 74 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 56 |
| Terraced | £216,000 | 59 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Violence and sexual offences made up 48% of the total. Police recorded 234 crimes inside Ratby’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 56 reports of anti-social behaviour. There were 10.2 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), above both Leicestershire’s towns (6.7) and England’s towns (7.8).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 28% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
There are 0.4 jobs in Ratby for each resident in work. The car took 88% of commuters, above both Leicestershire’s towns (77%) and England’s towns (70%). 28% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
One GP practice serves the town; just over three quarters of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. 16% of residents have a disability, about level with Leicestershire’s towns (16%) and below England’s towns (17%). The nearest A&E to Ratby is Leicester Royal Infirmary, 4.7 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Ratby | Leicestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 83% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 4.7% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 16% | 16% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Read these answers with age in mind: they aren’t adjusted, so younger places do better. The Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
Degrees are held by 27% of adults, below Leicestershire’s towns (30%) and England’s towns (34%) alike. Line up the people of Ratby by age and the one in the middle is 42.9. People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Ratby | Leicestershire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 14% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 25% |
| 65+ | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.3% | 5.5% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 27% | 30% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Leicestershire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Ratby. Best known first.
Castle · English HeritageKirby Muxloe Castle800 m outside town, to the southeast
GardenBradgate Park4.3 km outside town, to the north
CastleGroby Castle1.5 km outside town, to the northeastZooZooTropical Birdland3.6 km outside town, to the southwestAttractionAttractionHighway Spinney3.1 km outside town, to the southeastAttractionAttractionKing William's Bridge4.7 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
4 notable people were born in Ratby.
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ratby | 4,262 | — | B+ | A− | C | B− |
| Groby | 6,559 | 1.1 | A | B | B− | A− |
| Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe | 13,847 | 1.8 | B+ | B− | B− | B |
| Markfield | 4,761 | 2.8 | A | A− | B | B |
| Anstey | 7,043 | 2.9 | B+ | A− | C+ | B |
| Desford | 3,817 | 2.9 | B | B− | B− | B− |
| Thornton | 1,030 | 3 | — | B− | B− | B |
| Cropston | 1,120 | 4.2 | — | C+ | A | A+ |
Thornton and Cropston have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
GCSE results beat 68% of towns in England, and primary results beat 65% (Department for Education, Attainment 8 and Key Stage 2). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by Leicestershire council.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Leicestershire, England
Ratby is a built-up area of 4,262 people, in the Hinckley and Bosworth council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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