Upper Culm
WardEast Mid Devon. About 4,511 people in 72 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 35% of people in Upper Culm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Upper Culm compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Upper Culm safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Upper Culm at a rate of 28.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 57.7 per 1,000 people across Mid Devon.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 13 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Upper Culm.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (76), other crime (24) and criminal damage and arson (11).
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 Mid Devon
These figures are published for the whole of Mid Devon, not for each ward, so they describe all of Mid Devon and not Upper Culm alone. See Mid Devon
Upper Culm in brief
Upper Culm had 4,326 usual residents at the census.
About 35% of people in Upper Culm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Upper Culm, 54.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Upper Culm, 1.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.