Marlborough
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Marlborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Marlborough 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 68% of people in Marlborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Marlborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Marlborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Marlborough at a rate of 58.5 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, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Marlborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (135), anti-social behaviour (110) and shoplifting (91).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Marlborough was 55.8 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 Marlborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Marlborough has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 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 Marlborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 019A | 2,771 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.6% |
| Wiltshire 019B | 1,486 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.7% |
| Wiltshire 019C | 1,098 | 179.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 58.5% |
| Wiltshire 019D | 1,205 | 14.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Wiltshire 019E | 2,568 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.3% |
Your MP
- Danny KrugerReform UKMP for East Wiltshire
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 Marlborough1
Middle areas in Marlborough1
Towns near Marlborough6
Marlborough in brief
Marlborough is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 8,819 people lived in Marlborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £358,500 in 2025 across 142 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 58.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Marlborough was £358,500 in 2025.
Marlborough had 8,829 usual residents at the census.
About 68% of people in Marlborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Marlborough, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.