# Wellington Town in Somerset, South West. Wellington is a town in Somerset, South West. Median sale price £262,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 87.8 per 1,000 people. About 14,561 people. Town. Code E63006243. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Somerset](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £262,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Wellington was £262,000 in 2025. Joint 536th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 13,815** (2021). Wellington had 13,815 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 446th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 89%** (2022). About 89% of people in Wellington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 84.7%** (January 2026). In Wellington, 84.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63006243) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63006243) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 251 homes were sold in Wellington in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63006243) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Wellington. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63006243) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Wellington had 13,815 usual residents at the census. ## How Wellington compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Wellington | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £262,000 | joint 28th cheapest | 116 towns, South West · 2025 | | Population | 13,815 | 54th least populated | 116 towns, South West · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 89% | joint 52nd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 116 towns, South West · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 84.7% | 33rd lowest | 116 towns, South West · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Wellington | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Somerset West and Taunton 017C](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029310) | 1,918 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.2% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 017D](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029315) | 1,378 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029311) | 2,487 | 101.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.8% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029312) | 1,364 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.7% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029313) | 1,614 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.5% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01029316) | 1,710 | 150.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.0% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018E](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01035129) | 2,000 | 127.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.7% | | [Somerset West and Taunton 018F](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/neighbourhood/e01035130) | 1,345 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 65.6% | ## Your MP - [Taunton and Wellington](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/taunton-and-wellington): Gideon Amos (Liberal Democrat), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Somerset](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset) ## Postcode districts covering Wellington [TA21](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ta21) ## Middle areas in Wellington [Wellington North](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset/wellington-north) ## Towns near Wellington [Taunton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/taunton), [Cullompton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cullompton), [Tiverton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/tiverton), [Honiton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/honiton), [Bridgwater](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgwater), [Chard](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chard) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63006243 - Constituency: [Taunton and Wellington †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/taunton-and-wellington) - Council: [Somerset †](https://openindex.co.uk/somerset) - Region: [South West](https://openindex.co.uk/south-west) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 3.47 km² - People, mid-2024: 14,561* - Neighbourhoods: 8 - Output areas: 44 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Taunton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/taunton), [Cullompton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cullompton), [Tiverton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/tiverton), [Honiton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/honiton), [Bridgwater](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgwater), [Chard](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chard) ## Latest updates for Wellington - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63006243 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/wellington#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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