Dawlish
TownTown in Teignbridge, South West.
Dawlish is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dawlish 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 75% of people in Dawlish live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dawlish compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dawlish safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dawlish at a rate of 74.0 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, 85 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dawlish.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (394), other crime (138) and shoplifting (131).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dawlish was 78.4 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 Dawlish, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dawlish has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dawlish
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teignbridge 005B | 1,825 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 52.6% |
| Teignbridge 005C | 1,527 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 57.2% |
| Teignbridge 005D | 1,839 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 55.2% |
| Teignbridge 005F | 1,881 | 99.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.7% |
| Teignbridge 006A | 1,721 | 199.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 37.1% |
| Teignbridge 006B | 1,838 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.8% |
| Teignbridge 006C | 1,393 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 79.2% |
| Teignbridge 006D | 1,721 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 68.7% |
Your MP
- Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratMP for Newton Abbot
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 Dawlish1
Middle areas in Dawlish2
Towns near Dawlish6
Dawlish in brief
Dawlish is a town in Teignbridge, South West.
About 12,028 people lived in Dawlish in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £284,500 in 2025 across 221 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dawlish was £284,500 in 2025.
Dawlish had 11,800 usual residents at the census.
About 75% of people in Dawlish live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dawlish, 59.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.