Brixham
TownTown in Torbay, South West.
Brixham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brixham 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 Brixham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brixham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brixham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brixham at a rate of 67.1 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, 118 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brixham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (571), other crime (187) and anti-social behaviour (145).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brixham was 65.4 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 Brixham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brixham has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brixham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay 016E | 1,243 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.4% |
| Torbay 017A | 1,372 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.8% |
| Torbay 017B | 1,255 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| Torbay 017C | 1,323 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.3% |
| Torbay 017D | 1,303 | 231.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.5% |
| Torbay 017E | 1,703 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.6% |
| Torbay 017F | 1,504 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.2% |
| Torbay 017G | 1,016 | 76.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.6% |
| Torbay 018A | 1,410 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.4% |
| Torbay 018B | 1,255 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 33.0% |
| Torbay 018C | 1,435 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| Torbay 018D | 1,810 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.6% |
| Torbay 018E | 1,445 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.3% |
Your MP
- Caroline VoadenLiberal DemocratMP for South Devon
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 Brixham1
Middle areas in Brixham2
Towns near Brixham6
Brixham in brief
Brixham is a town in Torbay, South West.
About 17,698 people lived in Brixham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £295,000 in 2025 across 274 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brixham was £295,000 in 2025.
Brixham had 17,839 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Brixham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brixham, 83.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.