Warminster
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Warminster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Warminster 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 7% of people in Warminster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Warminster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Warminster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Warminster at a rate of 69.2 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, 109 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Warminster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (443), anti-social behaviour (259) and other crime (205).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Warminster was 84.4 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 Warminster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Warminster has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Warminster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 042A | 1,530 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.3% |
| Wiltshire 042B | 1,456 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.1% |
| Wiltshire 042C | 1,307 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Wiltshire 042D | 1,296 | 76.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.1% |
| Wiltshire 043A | 2,384 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.6% |
| Wiltshire 043B | 1,303 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.0% |
| Wiltshire 043C | 1,440 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| Wiltshire 043D | 1,344 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Wiltshire 044A | 1,696 | 247.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.5% |
| Wiltshire 044B | 1,500 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.0% |
| Wiltshire 044C | 1,430 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.6% |
| Wiltshire 044D | 1,491 | 69.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.6% |
Your MP
- Dr Andrew MurrisonConservativeMP for South West Wiltshire
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 Warminster1
Middle areas in Warminster3
Towns near Warminster6
Warminster in brief
Warminster is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 18,597 people lived in Warminster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £285,000 in 2025 across 322 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Warminster was £285,000 in 2025.
Warminster had 18,018 usual residents at the census.
About 7% of people in Warminster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Warminster, 89.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.