Devizes Rural West
WardWest Wiltshire. About 4,795 people in 58 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 35% of people in Devizes Rural West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Devizes Rural West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Devizes Rural West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Devizes Rural West at a rate of 33.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 60.3 per 1,000 people across Wiltshire.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 10 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Devizes Rural West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (53), anti-social behaviour (17) and other crime (17).
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.
Figures for the whole of Wiltshire
These figures are published for the whole of Wiltshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wiltshire and not Devizes Rural West alone. See Wiltshire
Devizes Rural West in brief
Devizes Rural West had 4,861 usual residents at the census.
About 35% of people in Devizes Rural West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Devizes Rural West, 72.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Devizes Rural West, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.