Tavistock
TownTown in West Devon, South West.
Tavistock is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tavistock 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 Tavistock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tavistock compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tavistock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tavistock at a rate of 57.3 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tavistock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (362), other crime (151) and anti-social behaviour (91).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tavistock was 55.3 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 Tavistock, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tavistock has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Tavistock
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Devon 005A | 1,770 | 151.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.5% |
| West Devon 005B | 2,208 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.7% |
| West Devon 005C | 1,966 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.1% |
| West Devon 005D | 1,623 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.5% |
| West Devon 005E | 1,344 | 16.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.9% |
| West Devon 005F | 1,415 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.8% |
| West Devon 005G | 2,342 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.3% |
Your MP
- Sir Geoffrey CoxConservativeMP for Torridge and Tavistock
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 Tavistock1
Middle areas in Tavistock1
Towns near Tavistock6
Tavistock in brief
Tavistock is a town in West Devon, South West.
About 13,598 people lived in Tavistock in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £290,000 in 2025 across 266 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tavistock was £290,000 in 2025.
Tavistock had 12,676 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Tavistock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tavistock, 87.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.