Bridgwater West
WardCentral Somerset. About 11,468 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 31% of people in Bridgwater West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bridgwater West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bridgwater West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bridgwater West at a rate of 70.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 90.4 per 1,000 people across Somerset.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 94 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bridgwater West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (370), other crime (130) and anti-social behaviour (93).
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 Somerset
These figures are published for the whole of Somerset, not for each ward, so they describe all of Somerset and not Bridgwater West alone. See Somerset
Bridgwater West in brief
Bridgwater West had 11,198 usual residents at the census.
About 31% of people in Bridgwater West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bridgwater West, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bridgwater West, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.