Barnstaple
TownTown in North Devon, South West.
Barnstaple is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barnstaple 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Barnstaple, 94.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Barnstaple compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barnstaple safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barnstaple at a rate of 111.7 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, 325 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barnstaple.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,479), other crime (573) and shoplifting (544).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barnstaple was 123.8 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 Barnstaple, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barnstaple has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barnstaple
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Devon 007A | 1,695 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.2% |
| North Devon 007B | 1,490 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| North Devon 007C | 1,103 | 193.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.1% |
| North Devon 007D | 1,440 | 88.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.0% |
| North Devon 008A | 1,684 | 603.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.9% |
| North Devon 008B | 1,472 | 83.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.7% |
| North Devon 008C | 1,292 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.6% |
| North Devon 008D | 1,824 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.4% |
| North Devon 009A | 1,677 | 122.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.2% |
| North Devon 009B | 1,446 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| North Devon 009C | 1,394 | 228.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| North Devon 009D | 1,327 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| North Devon 010A | 1,530 | 26.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| North Devon 010B | 1,571 | 123.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| North Devon 010C | 1,305 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| North Devon 010D | 1,512 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| North Devon 010E | 1,172 | 102.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| North Devon 010F | 1,472 | 79.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.2% |
| North Devon 012A | 1,380 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.6% |
| North Devon 012B | 1,490 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| North Devon 012F | 1,623 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.1% |
Your MP
- Ian RoomeLiberal DemocratMP for North Devon
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 Barnstaple2
Middle areas in Barnstaple4
Towns near Barnstaple2
Barnstaple in brief
Barnstaple is a town in North Devon, South West.
About 32,188 people lived in Barnstaple in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,750 in 2025 across 488 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 111.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barnstaple was £257,750 in 2025.
Barnstaple had 31,271 usual residents at the census.
In Barnstaple, 94.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Barnstaple, 3.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.