Chipping Sodbury
TownTown in South Gloucestershire, South West.
Chipping Sodbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chipping Sodbury 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 Chipping Sodbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chipping Sodbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chipping Sodbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chipping Sodbury at a rate of 53.0 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chipping Sodbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (196), other crime (86) and anti-social behaviour (56).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chipping Sodbury was 63.5 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 Chipping Sodbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chipping Sodbury has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chipping Sodbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Gloucestershire 008A | 1,787 | 79.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.6% |
| South Gloucestershire 008B | 1,397 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| South Gloucestershire 008C | 1,861 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.4% |
| South Gloucestershire 008D | 1,457 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| South Gloucestershire 010D | 1,784 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.1% |
Your MP
- Claire YoungLiberal DemocratMP for Thornbury and Yate
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 Chipping Sodbury1
Middle areas in Chipping Sodbury1
Towns near Chipping Sodbury6
Chipping Sodbury in brief
Chipping Sodbury is a town in South Gloucestershire, South West.
About 8,090 people lived in Chipping Sodbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £360,000 in 2025 across 135 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chipping Sodbury was £360,000 in 2025.
Chipping Sodbury had 8,026 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chipping Sodbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chipping Sodbury, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.