Chippenham
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Chippenham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chippenham 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 88% of people in Chippenham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chippenham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chippenham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chippenham at a rate of 69.0 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, 227 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chippenham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (986), anti-social behaviour (594) and other crime (375).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chippenham was 69.7 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 Chippenham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chippenham has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chippenham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 009A | 2,390 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Wiltshire 009B | 1,542 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.7% |
| Wiltshire 009C | 1,351 | 69.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.1% |
| Wiltshire 009D | 1,558 | 55.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
| Wiltshire 009E | 1,652 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Wiltshire 009F | 1,214 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Wiltshire 010A | 1,349 | 18.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.9% |
| Wiltshire 010B | 1,362 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Wiltshire 010C | 1,745 | 99.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.1% |
| Wiltshire 010D | 1,273 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Wiltshire 010E | 1,364 | 55.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.8% |
| Wiltshire 010F | 1,514 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Wiltshire 010G | 1,246 | 16.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.5% |
| Wiltshire 011A | 1,353 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.3% |
| Wiltshire 011B | 1,535 | 501.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 27.0% |
| Wiltshire 011C | 1,535 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.7% |
| Wiltshire 011D | 1,414 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 62.5% |
| Wiltshire 011E | 2,511 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.2% |
| Wiltshire 011F | 1,235 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.6% |
| Wiltshire 014A | 1,326 | 16.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Wiltshire 014B | 1,318 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wiltshire 014C | 1,237 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.1% |
| Wiltshire 014D | 1,245 | 17.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.2% |
| Wiltshire 014E | 1,580 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Sarah GibsonLiberal DemocratMP for Chippenham
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 Chippenham2
Middle areas in Chippenham4
Towns near Chippenham6
Chippenham in brief
Chippenham is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 37,126 people lived in Chippenham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £292,500 in 2025 across 688 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chippenham was £292,500 in 2025.
Chippenham had 36,084 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Chippenham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chippenham, 88.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.