Lower Stratton
WardCentral Swindon. About 12,033 people in 5.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 25% of people in Lower Stratton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lower Stratton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lower Stratton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lower Stratton at a rate of 62.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across Swindon.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lower Stratton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (329), anti-social behaviour (151) and other crime (124).
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 Swindon
These figures are published for the whole of Swindon, not for each ward, so they describe all of Swindon and not Lower Stratton alone. See Swindon
Lower Stratton in brief
Lower Stratton had 11,305 usual residents at the census.
About 25% of people in Lower Stratton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lower Stratton, 98.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Lower Stratton, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.