Bideford
TownTown in Torridge, South West.
Bideford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bideford 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 100% of people in Bideford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bideford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bideford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bideford at a rate of 88.8 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, 166 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bideford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (720), other crime (277) and anti-social behaviour (261).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bideford was 89.7 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 Bideford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bideford has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bideford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torridge 002B | 1,807 | 26.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.8% |
| Torridge 003A | 2,140 | 164.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.2% |
| Torridge 003B | 2,053 | 21.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 83.2% |
| Torridge 003C | 1,545 | 264.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Torridge 004A | 2,078 | 77.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.6% |
| Torridge 004B | 1,634 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 70.8% |
| Torridge 004C | 2,814 | 87.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.1% |
| Torridge 004D | 2,453 | 96.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.0% |
| Torridge 004E | 2,093 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.8% |
| Torridge 004F | 1,948 | 42.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Sir Geoffrey CoxConservativeMP for Torridge and Tavistock
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 Bideford1
Middle areas in Bideford2
Towns near Bideford2
Bideford in brief
Bideford is a town in Torridge, South West.
About 19,773 people lived in Bideford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 345 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bideford was £230,000 in 2025.
Bideford had 19,493 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bideford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bideford, 85.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.