Verwood
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Verwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Verwood 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 13% of people in Verwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Verwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Verwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Verwood at a rate of 32.9 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, 37 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Verwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (159), anti-social behaviour (115) and other crime (59).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Verwood was 37.9 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 Verwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Verwood has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Verwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 010A | 1,518 | 44.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Dorset 010B | 1,144 | 10.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Dorset 010C | 1,541 | 23.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.2% |
| Dorset 010D | 2,034 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 81.8% |
| Dorset 010E | 1,452 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.1% |
| Dorset 012B | 1,419 | 83.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.9% |
| Dorset 012C | 1,476 | No figure | 10 | 98.8% |
| Dorset 012D | 1,969 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.6% |
| Dorset 012E | 1,497 | 12.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.2% |
Your MP
- Simon HoareConservativeMP for North Dorset
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 Verwood1
Middle areas in Verwood2
Towns near Verwood6
Verwood in brief
Verwood is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 13,961 people lived in Verwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £400,000 in 2025 across 241 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 32.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Verwood was £400,000 in 2025.
Verwood had 13,706 usual residents at the census.
About 13% of people in Verwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Verwood, 88.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.