Highworth
TownTown in Swindon, South West.
Highworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Highworth 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 0% of people in Highworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Highworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Highworth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Highworth at a rate of 48.0 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, 34 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Highworth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (160), other crime (62) and anti-social behaviour (55).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Highworth was 46.5 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 Highworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Highworth has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Highworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swindon 001A | 1,505 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.3% |
| Swindon 001B | 1,252 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 63.3% |
| Swindon 001C | 1,586 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.4% |
| Swindon 001D | 1,328 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.2% |
| Swindon 001E | 1,612 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.7% |
| Swindon 001F | 1,085 | 12.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.6% |
Your MP
- Will StoneLabourMP for Swindon North
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 Highworth1
Middle areas in Highworth1
Towns near Highworth6
Highworth in brief
Highworth is a town in Swindon, South West.
About 7,993 people lived in Highworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Highworth was £300,000 in 2025.
Highworth had 7,932 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Highworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Highworth, 85.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.