Bath

Town

Town in Bath and North East Somerset, South West.

Bath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bath 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.

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Gigabit coverage by town

Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026

Under 60%98% or more

In Bath, 76.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

Median sale price

£448,750

Joint 124th most expensive of 1,092

Worked out by Open Index

Population

94,080

114th most populated of 1,209

ONS Census 2021 · 2021

Gigabit broadband coverage

76.0%

UK 87.8%

Ofcom · Jan 2026

Claimant rate

2.0%

UK 3.9%

ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Bath compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BathMiddle

Median sale price116 towns, South West · 2025

£448,750most expensive

Population116 towns, South West · 2021

94,08010th most populated

Gigabit broadband coverage116 towns, South West · Jan 2026

76.0%15th lowest

Claimant rate116 towns, South West · Aug 2026

2.0%joint 19th lowest

Is Bath safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bath at a rate of 118.8 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, 975 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bath.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,812), other crime (2,099) and anti-social behaviour (1,927).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bath was 110.8 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 Bath, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bath has no single figure. Of its 58 neighbourhoods with a rank:
Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
Decile 8: 8 neighbourhoods
Decile 9: 10 neighbourhoods
Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 16 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Bath

Name	People (census)	Recorded crime per 1,000	Deprivation decile	Gigabit broadband
Bath and North East Somerset 004A	1,611	72.6 per 1,000	5	86.4%
Bath and North East Somerset 004B	1,786	32.1 per 1,000	10	98.7%
Bath and North East Somerset 004C	2,178	77.3 per 1,000	9	67.9%
Bath and North East Somerset 005A	1,478	28.7 per 1,000	10	91.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 005B	1,193	97.2 per 1,000	4	99.4%
Bath and North East Somerset 005C	1,414	30.7 per 1,000	10	87.4%
Bath and North East Somerset 005D	1,463	74.5 per 1,000	6	90.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 006A	1,543	113.2 per 1,000	9	89.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 006B	1,299	121.7 per 1,000	4	47.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 006C	1,541	65.7 per 1,000	8	49.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 006D	1,474	187.5 per 1,000	8	45.6%
Bath and North East Somerset 007A	1,814	872.1 per 1,000	3	40.9%
Bath and North East Somerset 007B	1,959	463.7 per 1,000	5	33.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 007C	1,880	279.3 per 1,000	5	32.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 007D	1,333	41.3 per 1,000	10	76.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 007E	2,485	45.4 per 1,000	10	57.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 007F	1,526	84.6 per 1,000	6	15.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 008A	1,264	84.7 per 1,000	9	94.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 008B	1,316	156.7 per 1,000	10	96.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 008C	1,570	49.2 per 1,000	10	96.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 008D	1,581	70.7 per 1,000	9	97.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 009A	2,136	62.6 per 1,000	10	84.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 009C	1,672	440.5 per 1,000	4	32.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 009E	2,224	199.9 per 1,000	7	39.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 011A	1,189	80.2 per 1,000	4	99.2%
Bath and North East Somerset 011B	1,511	109.6 per 1,000	2	99.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 011C	1,602	168.7 per 1,000	1	53.6%
Bath and North East Somerset 011D	1,485	255.6 per 1,000	2	77.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 012A	4,214	15.0 per 1,000	10	65.9%
Bath and North East Somerset 012B	1,497	79.5 per 1,000	10	63.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 012C	1,389	67.4 per 1,000	9	78.6%
Bath and North East Somerset 012D	1,311	22.7 per 1,000	10	84.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 012E	1,471	156.8 per 1,000	7	78.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 012F	1,893	56.9 per 1,000	9	92.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 013A	1,788	39.8 per 1,000	9	97.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 013B	1,281	76.6 per 1,000	6	85.2%
Bath and North East Somerset 013D	1,536	27.2 per 1,000	10	94.7%
Bath and North East Somerset 013E	1,461	51.4 per 1,000	8	92.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 013F	2,265	67.2 per 1,000	8	91.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 014A	1,693	86.1 per 1,000	9	92.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 014B	1,582	45.2 per 1,000	9	90.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 014C	1,434	78.1 per 1,000	4	96.2%
Bath and North East Somerset 014D	1,271	57.0 per 1,000	6	99.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 015A	1,350	102.7 per 1,000	5	91.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 015B	1,504	79.6 per 1,000	8	98.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 015C	1,411	122.1 per 1,000	9	99.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 015D	1,376	68.8 per 1,000	1	98.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 017A	1,957	114.2 per 1,000	10	90.2%
Bath and North East Somerset 017B	1,744	185.1 per 1,000	8	99.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 017C	1,844	98.5 per 1,000	10	92.4%
Bath and North East Somerset 018A	1,677	119.2 per 1,000	8	94.3%
Bath and North East Somerset 018B	1,292	40.5 per 1,000	10	91.5%
Bath and North East Somerset 018C	1,948	51.5 per 1,000	8	89.2%
Bath and North East Somerset 018D	1,411	143.0 per 1,000	1	94.1%
Bath and North East Somerset 019A	1,226	115.4 per 1,000	5	99.6%
Bath and North East Somerset 019B	1,389	63.3 per 1,000	6	99.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 019C	1,363	96.8 per 1,000	5	99.8%
Bath and North East Somerset 019D	1,943	31.4 per 1,000	10	99.7%

Your MP

Wera HobhouseLiberal DemocratMP for Bath

As of 18 October 2026, from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

Council1

Bath and North East Somerset

Postcode districts covering Bath2

Middle areas in Bath14

Towns near Bath6

Bath in brief

Bath is a town in Bath and North East Somerset, South West.

About 98,053 people lived in Bath in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £448,750 in 2025 across 1,358 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 118.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Bath was £448,750 in 2025.

Bath had 94,080 usual residents at the census.

In Bath, 76.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Bath, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.