Thornbury
TownTown in South Gloucestershire, South West.
Thornbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thornbury 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 Thornbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thornbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thornbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thornbury at a rate of 70.4 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, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thornbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (470), other crime (193) and anti-social behaviour (176).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thornbury was 63.7 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 Thornbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thornbury has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Thornbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Gloucestershire 001A | 1,307 | 38.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Gloucestershire 001B | 1,678 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.0% |
| South Gloucestershire 001C | 2,458 | 72.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| South Gloucestershire 001D | 1,734 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
| South Gloucestershire 001E | 2,260 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.9% |
| South Gloucestershire 002A | 1,458 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.6% |
| South Gloucestershire 002B | 2,195 | 165.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.5% |
| South Gloucestershire 002C | 1,432 | 28.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| South Gloucestershire 002D | 1,636 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.3% |
Your MP
- Claire YoungLiberal DemocratMP for Thornbury and Yate
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 Thornbury1
Middle areas in Thornbury2
Towns near Thornbury6
Thornbury in brief
Thornbury is a town in South Gloucestershire, South West.
About 15,120 people lived in Thornbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £341,000 in 2025 across 239 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thornbury was £341,000 in 2025.
Thornbury had 14,483 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Thornbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thornbury, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.