Wellington
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Wellington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wellington 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 89% of people in Wellington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wellington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wellington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wellington at a rate of 87.8 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, 122 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wellington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (670), other crime (228) and anti-social behaviour (204).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wellington was 90.7 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 Wellington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wellington has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Wellington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset West and Taunton 017C | 1,918 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.2% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 017D | 1,378 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018A | 2,487 | 101.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.8% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018B | 1,364 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.7% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018C | 1,614 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.5% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018D | 1,710 | 150.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.0% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018E | 2,000 | 127.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.7% |
| Somerset West and Taunton 018F | 1,345 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 65.6% |
Your MP
- Gideon AmosLiberal DemocratMP for Taunton and Wellington
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 Wellington1
Middle areas in Wellington1
Towns near Wellington6
Wellington in brief
Wellington is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 14,561 people lived in Wellington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £262,000 in 2025 across 251 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wellington was £262,000 in 2025.
Wellington had 13,815 usual residents at the census.
About 89% of people in Wellington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wellington, 84.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.