Melksham Forest
WardNorth west Wiltshire. About 5,309 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Melksham Forest live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Melksham Forest compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Melksham Forest safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Melksham Forest at a rate of 96.1 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, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Melksham Forest.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (206), anti-social behaviour (129) and shoplifting (83).
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 Melksham Forest alone. See Wiltshire
Melksham Forest in brief
Melksham Forest had 5,288 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Melksham Forest live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Melksham Forest, 92.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Melksham Forest, 3.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.