Weymouth
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Weymouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Weymouth 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 78% of people in Weymouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Weymouth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Weymouth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Weymouth at a rate of 98.2 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, 632 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Weymouth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,023), anti-social behaviour (1,624) and other crime (633).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Weymouth was 99.7 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 Weymouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Weymouth has no single figure. Of its 33 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- 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 Weymouth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 037D | 1,170 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 76.8% |
| Dorset 037E | 1,506 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 66.9% |
| Dorset 038A | 2,211 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.0% |
| Dorset 038B | 1,755 | 114.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.4% |
| Dorset 038C | 1,546 | 24.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.6% |
| Dorset 038D | 2,154 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.9% |
| Dorset 040A | 1,536 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Dorset 040B | 1,775 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.3% |
| Dorset 040C | 1,744 | 17.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.7% |
| Dorset 040D | 1,826 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Dorset 040E | 1,965 | 78.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
| Dorset 041A | 1,917 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.2% |
| Dorset 041B | 1,804 | 127.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.1% |
| Dorset 041C | 1,696 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 51.7% |
| Dorset 041D | 2,144 | 85.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.6% |
| Dorset 041E | 1,505 | 133.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.6% |
| Dorset 043A | 1,955 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Dorset 043B | 1,801 | 157.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.4% |
| Dorset 043C | 1,875 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Dorset 043D | 2,074 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.0% |
| Dorset 044A | 1,466 | 94.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.6% |
| Dorset 044B | 1,739 | 820.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 5.3% |
| Dorset 044C | 1,435 | 156.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 80.9% |
| Dorset 044D | 1,574 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.6% |
| Dorset 044E | 1,796 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 66.2% |
| Dorset 044F | 1,513 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.1% |
| Dorset 045A | 1,870 | 39.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.8% |
| Dorset 045B | 1,663 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Dorset 045C | 1,504 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Dorset 046A | 1,260 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Dorset 046B | 1,459 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Dorset 046C | 1,460 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| Dorset 046D | 1,395 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.3% |
Your MP
- Lloyd HattonLabourMP for South Dorset
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 Weymouth2
Middle areas in Weymouth7
Towns near Weymouth6
Weymouth in brief
Weymouth is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 56,292 people lived in Weymouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £276,000 in 2025 across 1,051 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Weymouth was £276,000 in 2025.
Weymouth had 55,540 usual residents at the census.
About 78% of people in Weymouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Weymouth, 83.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.