# Corsham

Town in Wiltshire, South West.

Corsham is a town in Wiltshire, South West. Median sale price £350,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 41.6 per 1,000 people. About 11,647 people.

Town. Code E63005109. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Wiltshire](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £350,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Corsham was £350,000 in 2025. Joint 267th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 10,887** (2021). Corsham had 10,887 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 282nd least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 53%** (2022). About 53% of people in Corsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 92.9%** (January 2026). In Corsham, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63005109) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63005109) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 175 homes were sold in Corsham in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63005109) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Corsham.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63005109) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Corsham had 10,887 usual residents at the census.

## How Corsham compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Corsham | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £350,000 | joint 19th most expensive | 116 towns, South West · 2025 |
| Population | 10,887 | 29th least populated | 116 towns, South West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 53% | joint 33rd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 116 towns, South West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 92.9% | joint 36th highest | 116 towns, South West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Corsham

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Wiltshire 017B](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01031889) | 2,477 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.8% |
| [Wiltshire 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01031931) | 1,916 | 81.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.5% |
| [Wiltshire 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01031932) | 1,567 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.5% |
| [Wiltshire 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01031933) | 1,808 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| [Wiltshire 018F](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01031952) | 2,348 | 65.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.2% |
| [Wiltshire 018H](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01034526) | 1,288 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.6% |
| [Wiltshire 018I](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/neighbourhood/e01034527) | 1,506 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |

## Your MP

- [Chippenham](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/chippenham): Sarah Gibson (Liberal Democrat), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Wiltshire](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire)

## Postcode districts covering Corsham

[SN13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sn13)

## Middle areas in Corsham

[Corsham, Bowden Hill & Lacock](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire/corsham-bowden-hill-and-lacock)

## Towns near Corsham

[Chippenham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chippenham), [Melksham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/melksham), [Bradford-on-Avon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bradford-on-avon), [Trowbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/trowbridge), [Bath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bath), [Calne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/calne)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63005109
- Constituency: [Chippenham †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/chippenham)
- Council: [Wiltshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/wiltshire)
- Region: [South West](https://openindex.co.uk/south-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.89 km²
- People, mid-2024: 11,647*
- Neighbourhoods: 7
- Output areas: 36

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Chippenham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chippenham), [Melksham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/melksham), [Bradford-on-Avon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bradford-on-avon), [Trowbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/trowbridge), [Bath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bath), [Calne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/calne)

## Latest updates for Corsham

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63005109

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/corsham
