Amesbury
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Amesbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Amesbury add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 26% of people in Amesbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Amesbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Amesbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Amesbury at a rate of 66.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Amesbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (390), anti-social behaviour (166) and other crime (159).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Amesbury was 66.1 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Amesbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Amesbury has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Amesbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 048A | 1,312 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.6% |
| Wiltshire 048B | 1,236 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Wiltshire 048C | 2,395 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Wiltshire 048E | 1,612 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Wiltshire 048F | 2,073 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 66.6% |
| Wiltshire 048G | 1,552 | 98.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.7% |
| Wiltshire 048H | 1,311 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.9% |
| Wiltshire 048I | 1,504 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Danny KrugerReform UKMP for East Wiltshire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Amesbury1
Middle areas in Amesbury1
Towns near Amesbury6
Amesbury in brief
Amesbury is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 13,513 people lived in Amesbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 188 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Amesbury was £310,000 in 2025.
Amesbury had 12,676 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Amesbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Amesbury, 90.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.