Torquay
TownTown in Torbay, South West.
Torquay is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Torquay 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 Torquay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Torquay compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Torquay safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Torquay at a rate of 143.0 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, 685 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Torquay.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,213), other crime (1,157) and anti-social behaviour (1,077).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Torquay was 148.1 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 Torquay, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Torquay has no single figure. Of its 33 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Torquay
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay 001A | 1,376 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Torbay 001B | 1,635 | 150.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 80.6% |
| Torbay 001C | 1,331 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Torbay 001D | 1,365 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Torbay 001E | 1,572 | 140.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.0% |
| Torbay 002A | 1,477 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.0% |
| Torbay 002B | 1,353 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Torbay 002C | 1,357 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.0% |
| Torbay 002D | 1,689 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.8% |
| Torbay 003E | 2,007 | 133.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Torbay 003G | 1,554 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.1% |
| Torbay 003H | 1,394 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.0% |
| Torbay 004A | 1,475 | 136.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.5% |
| Torbay 004B | 2,071 | 173.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.5% |
| Torbay 004C | 1,600 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.1% |
| Torbay 004D | 1,701 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% |
| Torbay 005A | 1,529 | 108.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.2% |
| Torbay 005B | 1,585 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.7% |
| Torbay 005C | 1,360 | 99.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.2% |
| Torbay 005D | 1,281 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.5% |
| Torbay 006A | 1,554 | 102.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Torbay 006B | 1,442 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.0% |
| Torbay 006C | 1,490 | 95.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Torbay 006D | 1,539 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.5% |
| Torbay 008A | 1,660 | 268.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.4% |
| Torbay 008B | 1,818 | 430.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.4% |
| Torbay 008C | 1,988 | 543.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 74.9% |
| Torbay 008D | 2,292 | 332.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.7% |
| Torbay 010A | 1,697 | 228.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.4% |
| Torbay 010B | 1,695 | 117.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 70.8% |
| Torbay 010C | 1,545 | 82.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.3% |
| Torbay 010D | 1,700 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 69.7% |
| Torbay 010E | 1,487 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 72.2% |
Your MP
- Steve DarlingLiberal DemocratMP for Torbay
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Torquay2
Middle areas in Torquay7
Towns near Torquay6
Torquay in brief
Torquay is a town in Torbay, South West.
About 52,222 people lived in Torquay in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 765 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 143.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Torquay was £220,000 in 2025.
Torquay had 52,034 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Torquay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Torquay, 85.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.