Bridgwater
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Bridgwater is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bridgwater 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 8% of people in Bridgwater live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bridgwater compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bridgwater safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bridgwater at a rate of 175.8 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, 806 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bridgwater.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,582), other crime (1,431) and anti-social behaviour (1,336).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bridgwater was 161.4 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 Bridgwater, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bridgwater has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bridgwater
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedgemoor 008A | 1,528 | 149.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Sedgemoor 008B | 1,725 | 146.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.5% |
| Sedgemoor 008C | 1,651 | 235.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Sedgemoor 008D | 1,557 | 139.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 008E | 1,408 | 165.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Sedgemoor 009A | 1,950 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Sedgemoor 009B | 1,822 | 565.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
| Sedgemoor 009C | 2,180 | 131.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Sedgemoor 009D | 2,441 | 110.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 009E | 2,182 | 632.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.1% |
| Sedgemoor 010B | 1,538 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.2% |
| Sedgemoor 010C | 1,425 | 139.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Sedgemoor 010D | 2,047 | 209.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 010E | 1,275 | 331.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| Sedgemoor 010F | 1,426 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.0% |
| Sedgemoor 010G | 1,116 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.6% |
| Sedgemoor 011A | 1,944 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Sedgemoor 011B | 1,493 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Sedgemoor 011C | 2,000 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Sedgemoor 011E | 1,410 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Sedgemoor 013A | 1,500 | 107.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 013B | 1,726 | 244.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Sedgemoor 013C | 1,381 | 192.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 013D | 1,527 | 200.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Sedgemoor 013E | 1,693 | 370.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.9% |
| Sedgemoor 014A | 1,130 | 97.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sedgemoor 014H | 1,744 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Sedgemoor 014I | 1,412 | 105.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.2% |
| Sedgemoor 014J | 1,701 | 137.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Sir Ashley FoxConservativeMP for Bridgwater
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 Bridgwater2
Middle areas in Bridgwater5
Towns near Bridgwater6
Bridgwater in brief
Bridgwater is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 50,532 people lived in Bridgwater in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,250 in 2025 across 597 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 175.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bridgwater was £225,250 in 2025.
Bridgwater had 47,846 usual residents at the census.
About 8% of people in Bridgwater live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bridgwater, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.