Paignton
TownTown in Torbay, South West.
Paignton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Paignton 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 Paignton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Paignton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Paignton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Paignton at a rate of 93.5 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, 523 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Paignton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,761), other crime (1,024) and anti-social behaviour (826).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Paignton was 92.1 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 Paignton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Paignton has no single figure. Of its 45 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Paignton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay 003A | 1,506 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Torbay 003B | 1,511 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.0% |
| Torbay 003C | 1,223 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.5% |
| Torbay 003F | 1,436 | 182.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Torbay 011A | 1,619 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| Torbay 011B | 1,466 | 78.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.0% |
| Torbay 011C | 1,401 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Torbay 011D | 1,592 | 16.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Torbay 011E | 1,559 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.4% |
| Torbay 011F | 1,390 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Torbay 012A | 1,499 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Torbay 012B | 1,244 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Torbay 012C | 1,525 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Torbay 012D | 1,496 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Torbay 012E | 1,558 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| Torbay 013A | 2,001 | 96.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.9% |
| Torbay 013B | 1,615 | 86.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.5% |
| Torbay 013C | 1,579 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Torbay 013D | 1,347 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Torbay 013E | 1,416 | 80.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 60.6% |
| Torbay 013G | 1,809 | 248.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Torbay 013H | 1,165 | 154.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.4% |
| Torbay 013I | 2,026 | 135.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.3% |
| Torbay 014A | 1,487 | 133.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.5% |
| Torbay 014B | 1,799 | 412.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.8% |
| Torbay 014C | 1,941 | 297.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.1% |
| Torbay 014D | 1,494 | 118.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.5% |
| Torbay 014E | 1,347 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Torbay 014F | 1,783 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.0% |
| Torbay 015A | 1,391 | 89.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.9% |
| Torbay 015B | 1,415 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Torbay 015C | 1,500 | 97.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.5% |
| Torbay 015D | 1,575 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.8% |
| Torbay 015E | 1,269 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.7% |
| Torbay 016A | 1,383 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.0% |
| Torbay 016B | 1,562 | 25.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.0% |
| Torbay 016C | 1,356 | 46.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 74.0% |
| Torbay 016D | 1,059 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.1% |
| Torbay 019A | 1,514 | 154.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Torbay 019B | 1,713 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Torbay 019C | 1,501 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Torbay 019D | 1,516 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Torbay 019E | 1,550 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.6% |
| Torbay 019F | 1,980 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.1% |
| Torbay 019G | 1,511 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Steve DarlingLiberal DemocratMP for Torbay
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 Paignton3
Middle areas in Paignton8
Towns near Paignton6
Paignton in brief
Paignton is a town in Torbay, South West.
About 68,257 people lived in Paignton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 1,030 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Paignton was £260,000 in 2025.
Paignton had 67,509 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Paignton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Paignton, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.