Melksham Without West & Rural
WardWest Wiltshire. About 5,025 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 37 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 44% of people in Melksham Without West & Rural live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Melksham Without West & Rural compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Melksham Without West & Rural safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Melksham Without West & Rural at a rate of 54.1 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, 40 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Melksham Without West & Rural.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (203), other crime (78) and anti-social behaviour (76).
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 Without West & Rural alone. See Wiltshire
Melksham Without West & Rural in brief
Melksham Without West & Rural had 4,747 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Melksham Without West & Rural live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Melksham Without West & Rural, 21.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Melksham Without West & Rural, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.