Priory Vale
WardWest Swindon. About 13,186 people in 3.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 8% of people in Priory Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Priory Vale compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Priory Vale safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Priory Vale at a rate of 47.4 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, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Priory Vale.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (258), anti-social behaviour (141) and other crime (116).
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 Priory Vale alone. See Swindon
Priory Vale in brief
Priory Vale had 12,738 usual residents at the census.
About 8% of people in Priory Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Priory Vale, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Priory Vale, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.