Wells
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Wells is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wells 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 63% of people in Wells live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wells compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wells safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wells at a rate of 85.9 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, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wells.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (410), other crime (184) and anti-social behaviour (155).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wells was 90.4 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 Wells, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wells has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wells
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendip 005D | 1,348 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 66.1% |
| Mendip 006D | 1,480 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.7% |
| Mendip 008A | 1,847 | 176.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 50.5% |
| Mendip 008B | 1,469 | 103.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Mendip 008C | 1,728 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.0% |
| Mendip 008D | 1,941 | 146.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.5% |
| Mendip 008E | 1,332 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.7% |
Your MP
- Tessa MuntLiberal DemocratMP for Wells and Mendip Hills
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 Wells1
Middle areas in Wells1
Towns near Wells6
Wells in brief
Wells is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 12,417 people lived in Wells in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £322,500 in 2025 across 237 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wells was £322,500 in 2025.
Wells had 12,097 usual residents at the census.
About 63% of people in Wells live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wells, 76.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.