Desborough

Desborough is covered by postcode district NN14. It is in the North Northamptonshire council area, England.

Typical price £257,500 Homes sold in Desborough, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 184 of 215 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 3 3 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Desborough, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Desborough, by flood risk Of the 215 postcodes in Desborough that ONS places, 215 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Desborough. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. 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Places named: Desborough. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Desborough
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 215

Of the 215 postcodes in Desborough that ONS places, 215 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4431, longitude -0.8210. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

What is it like to live in Desborough?

Homes sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 184 of the 215 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 215 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 3 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Rothwell Medical Centre, 2.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Market Harborough, 7.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Desborough?

Homes in Desborough sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 146 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £255,000 from 201 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£257,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£255,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £325,000 61 sales
  • Semi-detached £242,500 48 sales
  • Terraced £210,000 32 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £145,000 5 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole NN14 district, Desborough's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Desborough: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Desborough?

4 of the 215 postcodes now in use in Desborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 201 homes sold in Desborough were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN14 district, 17%.

The newest postcodes

NN14 2EPsince October 2025NN14 2SYsince July 2021NN14 2FQsince December 2020NN14 2FPsince February 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn DesboroughAcross the NN14 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 146 (0%) 35 of 654 (5%)
The 12 months to September 2025 2 of 201 (Under 1%) 159 of 956 (17%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Desborough?

Ofcom reports on 215 of the 215 postcodes in Desborough. At 184 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit184 of 215
Postcodes where every home can get superfast207 of 215

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Desborough at risk of flooding?

None of the 215 postcodes in Desborough is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Desborough?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Desborough. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Desborough?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Desborough is Market Harborough Rail Station, 7.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Market Harborough Rail Station Railway station 7.2 kmDrive
  • Kettering Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
  • Corby Rail Station Railway station 10.3 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Desborough?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Desborough. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Desborough safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 951 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Desborough over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 70 September 2025
  2. 75 October 2025
  3. 53 November 2025
  4. 55 December 2025
  5. 58 January 2026
  6. 67 February 2026
  7. 71 March 2026
  8. 124 April 2026
  9. 105 May 2026
  10. 87 June 2026
  11. 93 July 2026
  12. 93 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences308 reports
Anti-social behaviour299 reports
Criminal damage and arson78 reports
Shoplifting53 reports
Vehicle crime51 reports
Other theft46 reports
Burglary40 reports
Public order28 reports

Also: other crime 25, drugs 8, possession of weapons 7, robbery 5, bicycle theft 3.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Desborough?

Parliamentary constituency
Kettering
Police force area
Northamptonshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
Rosie Wrighting (Labour)

All 215 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving to Desborough

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Desborough postcodes

215 postcodes in use in Desborough, by district:

NN14 postcode district,215 postcodes

That district is in the NN postcode area.

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Places near Desborough

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Desborough's £257,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Rothwell, North Northamptonshire2.8 km, £230,000Mawsley Village7.6 km, £290,000Market Harborough7.8 km, £310,000Broughton, North Northamptonshire8.3 km, £268,000Kettering8.7 km, £242,500Corby9.5 km, £220,000Burton Latimer13.0 km, £254,000Brixworth14.0 km, £350,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Desborough

What is the postcode for Desborough?
Postcode district NN14, with 215 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Desborough in?
North Northamptonshire. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Desborough?
Rosie Wrighting (Labour), for Kettering. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Desborough?
A typical £257,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 146 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Desborough?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Havelock Infant School, Havelock Junior School and Loatlands Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Montsaye Academy, 2.3 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Desborough have a railway station?
The nearest is Market Harborough station, 7.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Desborough?
Ofcom reports on 215 of the 215 postcodes in Desborough. At 184 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Desborough at risk of flooding?
None of the 215 postcodes in Desborough is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Desborough?
4 of the 215 postcodes now in use in Desborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 201 homes sold in Desborough were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NN14 district, 17%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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