Taunton
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Taunton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Taunton 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 2% of people in Taunton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Taunton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Taunton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Taunton at a rate of 128.3 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, 719 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Taunton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,305), other crime (1,432) and anti-social behaviour (1,226).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Taunton was 122.9 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 Taunton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Taunton has no single figure. Of its 37 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 Taunton
Your MP
- Gideon AmosLiberal DemocratMP for Taunton and Wellington
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 Taunton2
Middle areas in Taunton7
Towns near Taunton6
Taunton in brief
Taunton is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 64,199 people lived in Taunton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £262,000 in 2025 across 943 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 128.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Taunton was £262,000 in 2025.
Taunton had 61,667 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Taunton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Taunton, 88.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.