Corsham
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Corsham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Corsham 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 53% of people in Corsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Corsham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Corsham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Corsham at a rate of 41.6 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, 52 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Corsham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (191), anti-social behaviour (99) and other crime (74).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Corsham was 44.1 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 Corsham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Corsham has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Corsham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 017B | 2,477 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.8% |
| Wiltshire 018A | 1,916 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.5% |
| Wiltshire 018B | 1,567 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.5% |
| Wiltshire 018C | 1,808 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| Wiltshire 018F | 2,348 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.2% |
| Wiltshire 018H | 1,288 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.6% |
| Wiltshire 018I | 1,506 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
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 Corsham1
Middle areas in Corsham1
Towns near Corsham6
Corsham in brief
Corsham is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 11,647 people lived in Corsham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 175 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 41.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Corsham was £350,000 in 2025.
Corsham had 10,887 usual residents at the census.
About 53% of people in Corsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Corsham, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.