Patchway
TownTown in South Gloucestershire, South West.
Patchway is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Patchway 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Patchway, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Patchway compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Patchway safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Patchway at a rate of 214.6 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, 328 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Patchway.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,150), shoplifting (1,126) and other crime (574).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Patchway was 157.1 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 Patchway, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Patchway has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Patchway
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Gloucestershire 033A | 1,658 | 175.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 73.4% |
| South Gloucestershire 033B | 1,458 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| South Gloucestershire 033C | 1,613 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| South Gloucestershire 033D | 1,524 | 127.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.0% |
| South Gloucestershire 033E | 1,667 | 325.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| South Gloucestershire 034A | 1,516 | 93.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
| South Gloucestershire 034B | 1,376 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| South Gloucestershire 034C | 1,438 | 134.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| South Gloucestershire 034D | 1,667 | 137.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| South Gloucestershire 034E | 1,863 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Claire HazelgroveLabourMP for Filton and Bradley Stoke
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 Patchway1
Middle areas in Patchway2
Towns near Patchway6
Patchway in brief
Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, South West.
About 18,087 people lived in Patchway in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £332,550 in 2025 across 330 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 214.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Patchway was £332,550 in 2025.
Patchway had 16,517 usual residents at the census.
In Patchway, 91.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Patchway, 2.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.