Honiton
TownTown in East Devon, South West.
Honiton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Honiton 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 32% of people in Honiton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Honiton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Honiton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Honiton at a rate of 57.0 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, 73 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Honiton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (348), other crime (133) and anti-social behaviour (79).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Honiton was 55.9 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 Honiton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Honiton has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Honiton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Devon 002A | 1,316 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
| East Devon 002B | 1,656 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| East Devon 002C | 1,329 | 38.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.0% |
| East Devon 002D | 1,870 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| East Devon 003A | 1,464 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| East Devon 003B | 1,372 | 17.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| East Devon 003C | 1,455 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| East Devon 003D | 1,201 | 16.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Richard FoordLiberal DemocratMP for Honiton and Sidmouth
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 Honiton1
Middle areas in Honiton2
Towns near Honiton6
Honiton in brief
Honiton is a town in East Devon, South West.
About 12,745 people lived in Honiton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 276 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Honiton was £275,000 in 2025.
Honiton had 12,155 usual residents at the census.
About 32% of people in Honiton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Honiton, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.