Bridport
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Bridport is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bridport 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 Bridport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bridport compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bridport safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bridport at a rate of 73.6 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, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bridport.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (335), anti-social behaviour (260) and other crime (126).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bridport was 71.0 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 Bridport, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bridport has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bridport
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 026B | 1,331 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.4% |
| Dorset 026C | 1,652 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 41.2% |
| Dorset 026D | 1,371 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 34.2% |
| Dorset 030A | 1,741 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.8% |
| Dorset 030B | 1,657 | 104.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 68.9% |
| Dorset 030C | 2,155 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 37.2% |
Your MP
- Edward MorelloLiberal DemocratMP for West Dorset
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 Bridport1
Middle areas in Bridport2
Towns near Bridport6
Bridport in brief
Bridport is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 12,375 people lived in Bridport in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £335,750 in 2025 across 246 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bridport was £335,750 in 2025.
Bridport had 12,294 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bridport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bridport, 58.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.