Old Town & Lawn
WardSouth west Swindon. About 14,128 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 7.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 36% of people in Old Town & Lawn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Old Town & Lawn compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Old Town & Lawn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Old Town & Lawn at a rate of 79.9 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, 104 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Old Town & Lawn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (469), anti-social behaviour (191) and other crime (157).
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 Old Town & Lawn alone. See Swindon
Old Town & Lawn in brief
Old Town & Lawn had 13,376 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Old Town & Lawn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Old Town & Lawn, 92.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Old Town & Lawn, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.