Devizes
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Devizes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Devizes 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Devizes, 79.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Devizes compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Devizes safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Devizes at a rate of 91.2 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, 161 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Devizes.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (711), anti-social behaviour (463) and other crime (247).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Devizes was 93.1 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 Devizes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Devizes has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 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 Devizes
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 025A | 1,941 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.6% |
| Wiltshire 025B | 1,515 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Wiltshire 025C | 2,058 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Wiltshire 025E | 1,272 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.8% |
| Wiltshire 025F | 1,275 | 21.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 58.6% |
| Wiltshire 025G | 1,143 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.8% |
| Wiltshire 025H | 1,821 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.2% |
| Wiltshire 026A | 1,485 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 74.9% |
| Wiltshire 026B | 1,758 | 332.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 54.9% |
| Wiltshire 026C | 1,491 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 52.2% |
| Wiltshire 026D | 1,633 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.7% |
| Wiltshire 034F | 1,627 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Brian MathewLiberal DemocratMP for Melksham and Devizes
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 Devizes1
Middle areas in Devizes2
Towns near Devizes6
Devizes in brief
Devizes is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 19,917 people lived in Devizes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £285,000 in 2025 across 365 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Devizes was £285,000 in 2025.
Devizes had 19,491 usual residents at the census.
In Devizes, 79.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Devizes, 3.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.