Sidmouth
TownTown in East Devon, South West.
Sidmouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sidmouth 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 Sidmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sidmouth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sidmouth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sidmouth at a rate of 50.8 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, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sidmouth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (296), other crime (131) and anti-social behaviour (77).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sidmouth was 47.7 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 Sidmouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sidmouth has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sidmouth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Devon 011A | 1,773 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 50.2% |
| East Devon 011B | 1,583 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 54.4% |
| East Devon 011C | 2,012 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 58.1% |
| East Devon 011D | 1,638 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 73.6% |
| East Devon 012A | 1,738 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.4% |
| East Devon 012B | 1,747 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 50.1% |
| East Devon 012C | 1,788 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 74.8% |
Your MP
- Richard FoordLiberal DemocratMP for Honiton and Sidmouth
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 Sidmouth1
Middle areas in Sidmouth2
Towns near Sidmouth6
Sidmouth in brief
Sidmouth is a town in East Devon, South West.
About 13,386 people lived in Sidmouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £432,000 in 2025 across 293 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sidmouth was £432,000 in 2025.
Sidmouth had 13,258 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Sidmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sidmouth, 67.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.