Yeovil
TownTown in Somerset, South West.
Yeovil is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Yeovil 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 29% of people in Yeovil live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Yeovil compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Yeovil safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Yeovil at a rate of 120.3 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, 518 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Yeovil.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,319), other crime (1,072) and shoplifting (1,028).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Yeovil was 113.0 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 Yeovil, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Yeovil has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Yeovil
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Somerset 011A | 1,479 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.2% |
| South Somerset 011B | 1,369 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| South Somerset 011D | 1,327 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 011E | 1,517 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 011F | 2,052 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.5% |
| South Somerset 012B | 1,558 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 012C | 1,318 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| South Somerset 012D | 1,776 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| South Somerset 012E | 1,646 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 012F | 1,428 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| South Somerset 013A | 1,559 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| South Somerset 013B | 1,505 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| South Somerset 013C | 1,598 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 013D | 1,348 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| South Somerset 014A | 1,483 | 193.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| South Somerset 014B | 1,755 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| South Somerset 014C | 1,396 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| South Somerset 014D | 1,501 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| South Somerset 014E | 1,730 | 259.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| South Somerset 015A | 1,582 | 110.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.2% |
| South Somerset 015C | 1,795 | 144.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.7% |
| South Somerset 015D | 1,603 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| South Somerset 015E | 1,116 | 1,177.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 73.4% |
| South Somerset 015F | 1,120 | 188.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
| South Somerset 016A | 2,187 | 102.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| South Somerset 016B | 2,231 | 151.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| South Somerset 016C | 1,438 | 118.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| South Somerset 016D | 1,344 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| South Somerset 018A | 1,989 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.4% |
| South Somerset 018B | 1,446 | 104.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| South Somerset 018C | 1,571 | 66.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| South Somerset 018D | 1,472 | 13.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Adam DanceLiberal DemocratMP for Yeovil
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 Yeovil3
Middle areas in Yeovil7
Towns near Yeovil6
Yeovil in brief
Yeovil is a town in Somerset, South West.
About 51,798 people lived in Yeovil in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £235,000 in 2025 across 763 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Yeovil was £235,000 in 2025.
Yeovil had 50,170 usual residents at the census.
About 29% of people in Yeovil live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Yeovil, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.