Bowthorpe
WardWest Norwich. About 10,694 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Bowthorpe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bowthorpe compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bowthorpe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bowthorpe at a rate of 75.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 126.0 per 1,000 people across Norwich.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 68 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bowthorpe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (381), other crime (156) and anti-social behaviour (118).
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 Norwich
These figures are published for the whole of Norwich, not for each ward, so they describe all of Norwich and not Bowthorpe alone. See Norwich
Bowthorpe in brief
Bowthorpe had 10,178 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bowthorpe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bowthorpe, 94.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bowthorpe, 4.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.