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Weston-super-Mare

Town

Town in North Somerset, South West.

Weston-super-Mare is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Weston-super-Mare 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 56% of people in Weston-super-Mare live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£255,000
Joint 487th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
84,600
128th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
56%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
90.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Weston-super-Mare compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Weston-super-MareMiddle
Median sale price116 towns, South West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South West116 areas from £195,000 to £448,750. The middle area is £286,875. Weston-super-Mare is £255,000.
£255,000joint 16th cheapest
Population116 towns, South West · 2021
Population: every town in South West116 areas from 7,704 to 425,196. The middle area is 14,963. Weston-super-Mare is 84,600.
84,60011th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares116 towns, South West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South West116 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 97.5%. Weston-super-Mare is 56.0%.
56%36th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage116 towns, South West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South West116 areas from 28.0% to 99.0%. The middle area is 89.3%. Weston-super-Mare is 90.9%.
90.9%51st highest

Is Weston-super-Mare safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Weston-super-Mare at a rate of 123.0 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, 931 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Weston-super-Mare.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,597), other crime (2,026) and anti-social behaviour (1,479).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Weston-super-Mare was 125.1 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 Weston-super-Mare, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Weston-super-Mare has no single figure. Of its 56 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 13 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 2 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 Weston-super-Mare

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
North Somerset 014C1,76734.6 per 1,000877.3%
North Somerset 015A1,13030.4 per 1,000897.5%
North Somerset 015B1,40225.9 per 1,0001099.5%
North Somerset 015C1,26128.6 per 1,0001099.4%
North Somerset 015D1,44233.8 per 1,000887.1%
North Somerset 015E1,22134.3 per 1,000981.5%
North Somerset 015F1,46845.8 per 1,000796.1%
North Somerset 015G1,36386.9 per 1,000398.5%
North Somerset 016A1,57149.1 per 1,000783.5%
North Somerset 016B1,476122.4 per 1,000574.4%
North Somerset 016C1,40399.3 per 1,000294.3%
North Somerset 016D1,44036.6 per 1,000595.7%
North Somerset 016E1,39349.8 per 1,0007100.0%
North Somerset 016F1,37740.9 per 1,0004100.0%
North Somerset 017A1,41936.1 per 1,0007100.0%
North Somerset 017B1,80592.7 per 1,0007100.0%
North Somerset 017C1,378101.4 per 1,000499.2%
North Somerset 017D1,48228.3 per 1,0009100.0%
North Somerset 017E1,75737.5 per 1,0001099.2%
North Somerset 017F1,55049.4 per 1,000897.9%
North Somerset 018A1,758109.3 per 1,000460.3%
North Somerset 018B1,594173.5 per 1,000285.2%
North Somerset 018C1,46174.5 per 1,000587.1%
North Somerset 018D1,462289.4 per 1,000287.7%
North Somerset 018E1,29659.2 per 1,000783.8%
North Somerset 018F1,46697.1 per 1,000684.7%
North Somerset 020A1,755208.6 per 1,000196.3%
North Somerset 020B1,805207.2 per 1,000189.7%
North Somerset 020C1,6341,138.1 per 1,000181.6%
North Somerset 020D1,647130.1 per 1,000288.2%
North Somerset 020E2,032132.3 per 1,000391.1%
North Somerset 020F1,80092.5 per 1,000499.9%
North Somerset 021A1,966265.3 per 1,000181.2%
North Somerset 021B1,486118.7 per 1,000392.1%
North Somerset 021C1,373213.8 per 1,000193.5%
North Somerset 021D1,543178.6 per 1,000187.8%
North Somerset 021E1,498266.7 per 1,000178.2%
North Somerset 022A1,44784.4 per 1,000686.6%
North Somerset 022B1,68667.8 per 1,000279.6%
North Somerset 022C1,597191.2 per 1,000393.9%
North Somerset 022D1,39659.2 per 1,000797.8%
North Somerset 025A1,464123.4 per 1,000794.9%
North Somerset 025B1,60958.6 per 1,000891.7%
North Somerset 025C1,506138.1 per 1,000178.1%
North Somerset 025D1,382108.4 per 1,000177.0%
North Somerset 026A1,58137.0 per 1,0007100.0%
North Somerset 026B1,30049.6 per 1,000786.3%
North Somerset 026C1,15786.3 per 1,000695.1%
North Somerset 026D1,49248.0 per 1,000797.9%
North Somerset 026F1,343144.6 per 1,000492.1%
North Somerset 027B1,48191.3 per 1,0007100.0%
North Somerset 027C1,75567.1 per 1,000599.7%
North Somerset 027D1,31677.9 per 1,0006100.0%
North Somerset 027E1,18240.5 per 1,0008100.0%
North Somerset 027F1,474162.2 per 1,000389.5%
North Somerset 027G2,50198.1 per 1,000791.3%

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Postcode districts covering Weston-super-Mare3

Middle areas in Weston-super-Mare10

Towns near Weston-super-Mare6

Weston-super-Mare in brief

Weston-super-Mare is a town in North Somerset, South West.

About 87,165 people lived in Weston-super-Mare in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £255,000 in 2025 across 1,559 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 123.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Weston-super-Mare was £255,000 in 2025.

Weston-super-Mare had 84,600 usual residents at the census.

About 56% of people in Weston-super-Mare live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Weston-super-Mare, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.