Nailsea
TownTown in North Somerset, South West.
Nailsea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Nailsea 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 100% of people in Nailsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Nailsea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Nailsea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Nailsea at a rate of 54.2 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Nailsea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (305), anti-social behaviour (189) and other crime (149).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Nailsea was 44.5 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 Nailsea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Nailsea has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Nailsea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Somerset 008A | 1,622 | 128.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.4% |
| North Somerset 008B | 1,731 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.7% |
| North Somerset 008C | 1,348 | 25.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| North Somerset 008D | 1,542 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.5% |
| North Somerset 008E | 1,630 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| North Somerset 008F | 1,376 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| North Somerset 009A | 1,211 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| North Somerset 009B | 1,216 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.2% |
| North Somerset 009C | 1,472 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| North Somerset 009D | 1,278 | 25.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.6% |
| North Somerset 009E | 1,113 | 137.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.8% |
Your MP
- Sadik Al-HassanLabourMP for North 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 Nailsea1
Middle areas in Nailsea2
Towns near Nailsea6
Nailsea in brief
Nailsea is a town in North Somerset, South West.
About 16,259 people lived in Nailsea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £377,475 in 2025 across 318 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Nailsea was £377,475 in 2025.
Nailsea had 15,919 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Nailsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Nailsea, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.