Salisbury
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Salisbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Salisbury 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 57% of people in Salisbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Salisbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Salisbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Salisbury at a rate of 98.2 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, 444 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Salisbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,635), anti-social behaviour (1,006) and other crime (877).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Salisbury was 96.9 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 Salisbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Salisbury has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Salisbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 051A | 2,814 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Wiltshire 051B | 1,322 | 74.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Wiltshire 051C | 1,224 | 100.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wiltshire 051D | 1,508 | 14.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Wiltshire 052A | 2,685 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Wiltshire 052B | 1,576 | 141.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Wiltshire 052C | 1,417 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wiltshire 052D | 1,945 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Wiltshire 053A | 1,583 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Wiltshire 053B | 1,432 | 138.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Wiltshire 053C | 1,476 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Wiltshire 053D | 1,398 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Wiltshire 055A | 1,471 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Wiltshire 055B | 1,317 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| Wiltshire 055C | 1,773 | 169.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.8% |
| Wiltshire 055D | 2,345 | 100.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Wiltshire 056A | 1,892 | 237.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| Wiltshire 056B | 1,295 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.5% |
| Wiltshire 056C | 1,321 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wiltshire 056D | 1,646 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Wiltshire 057C | 1,792 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wiltshire 057G | 1,136 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.6% |
| Wiltshire 058A | 1,496 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wiltshire 058B | 1,797 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Wiltshire 058C | 1,745 | 504.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Wiltshire 059A | 1,300 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Wiltshire 059B | 1,213 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Wiltshire 059C | 1,715 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.2% |
| Wiltshire 059D | 1,820 | 211.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
Your MP
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 Salisbury2
Middle areas in Salisbury7
Towns near Salisbury6
Salisbury in brief
Salisbury is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 49,145 people lived in Salisbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 779 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Salisbury was £310,000 in 2025.
Salisbury had 47,690 usual residents at the census.
About 57% of people in Salisbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Salisbury, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.