Frome
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Frome is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Frome 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 89% of people in Frome live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Frome compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Frome safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Frome at a rate of 100.0 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, 198 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Frome.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,113), other crime (472) and anti-social behaviour (439).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Frome was 91.4 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 Frome, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Frome has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Frome
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendip 001C | 1,410 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Mendip 003A | 1,833 | 16.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Mendip 003B | 1,632 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.7% |
| Mendip 003C | 1,048 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Mendip 003D | 1,402 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Mendip 003E | 1,299 | 144.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.7% |
| Mendip 004A | 1,869 | 157.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.6% |
| Mendip 004B | 2,043 | 151.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.9% |
| Mendip 004C | 1,509 | 372.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.9% |
| Mendip 004D | 1,726 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.0% |
| Mendip 004E | 1,647 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.6% |
| Mendip 007A | 1,684 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.6% |
| Mendip 007C | 1,409 | 94.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.2% |
| Mendip 007D | 1,629 | 85.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Mendip 007E | 1,539 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Mendip 007F | 1,632 | 101.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Mendip 007G | 1,364 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.3% |
| Mendip 007H | 1,891 | 102.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.5% |
Your MP
- Anna SabineLiberal DemocratMP for Frome and East Somerset
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 Frome1
Middle areas in Frome3
Towns near Frome6
Frome in brief
Frome is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 28,333 people lived in Frome in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £329,000 in 2025 across 481 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Frome was £329,000 in 2025.
Frome had 27,904 usual residents at the census.
About 89% of people in Frome live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Frome, 91.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.