Minehead
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Minehead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Minehead 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 31% of people in Minehead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Minehead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Minehead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Minehead at a rate of 105.7 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, 85 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Minehead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (555), other crime (198) and anti-social behaviour (189).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Minehead was 113.9 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 Minehead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Minehead has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Minehead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset West and Taunton 001A | 1,760 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.4% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 001B | 1,757 | 160.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.0% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 001C | 1,908 | 125.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 70.2% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 001D | 2,015 | 54.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.6% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 002A | 1,647 | 178.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 002B | 1,489 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 62.6% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 002C | 1,179 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 64.3% |
Your MP
- Rachel GilmourLiberal DemocratMP for Tiverton and Minehead
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 Minehead1
Middle areas in Minehead2
Towns near Minehead6
Minehead in brief
Minehead is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 11,882 people lived in Minehead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £265,000 in 2025 across 216 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Minehead was £265,000 in 2025.
Minehead had 11,752 usual residents at the census.
About 31% of people in Minehead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Minehead, 78.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.