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Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery

Ward

West Winchester. About 8,447 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 50 square kilometres.

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Radon Affected Area by ward

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 29% of people in Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
8,273
Joint 3,269th most populated of 8,397
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
29%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
79.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
0.8%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery compares

Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.

Badger Farm and Oliver's BatteryMiddle
Population16 wards, Winchester · 2021
Population: every ward in Winchester16 areas from 5,582 to 9,992. The middle area is 8,129. Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery is 8,273.
8,2738th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares16 wards, Winchester · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every ward in Winchester16 areas from 0.0% to 85.0%. The middle area is 40.5%. Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery is 29.0%.
29%7th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage16 wards, Winchester · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every ward in Winchester16 areas from 5.9% to 99.8%. The middle area is 69.6%. Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery is 79.7%.
79.7%5th highest
Claimant rate16 wards, Winchester · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every ward in Winchester16 areas from 0.8% to 3.8%. The middle area is 1.9%. Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery is 0.8%.
0.8%lowest

Is Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery at a rate of 34.2 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 61.3 per 1,000 people across Winchester.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 24 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (100), other crime (80) and anti-social behaviour (28).

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 Winchester

These figures are published for the whole of Winchester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Winchester and not Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery alone. See Winchester

Average house price
£453,188
Up 0.1% in a year
HM Land Registry · Aug 2026
Median full-time pay
£45,766
42nd highest paid of 348
ONS earnings survey · 2025
House price to pay
9.9×
Joint 56th least affordable of 348
Worked out by Open Index
Deprivation score
10.2
Joint 29th least deprived of 296
MHCLG · England only
Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery in brief

Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery had 8,273 usual residents at the census.

About 29% of people in Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, 79.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery, 0.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.