Calne
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Calne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Calne 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 Calne, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Calne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Calne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Calne at a rate of 56.5 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, 122 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Calne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (517), anti-social behaviour (230) and other crime (186).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Calne was 56.8 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 Calne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Calne has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Calne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 015A | 2,572 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Wiltshire 015B | 1,457 | 120.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.3% |
| Wiltshire 015C | 1,973 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.0% |
| Wiltshire 015D | 1,803 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| Wiltshire 015F | 1,875 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.3% |
| Wiltshire 015G | 1,435 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Wiltshire 016B | 1,392 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 68.1% |
| Wiltshire 016C | 1,837 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Wiltshire 016D | 2,260 | 22.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.3% |
| Wiltshire 016E | 1,221 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 65.4% |
| Wiltshire 016F | 1,242 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
Your MP
- Sarah GibsonLiberal DemocratMP for Chippenham
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 Calne1
Middle areas in Calne2
Towns near Calne6
Calne in brief
Calne is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 20,062 people lived in Calne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £267,250 in 2025 across 388 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Calne was £267,250 in 2025.
Calne had 19,725 usual residents at the census.
In Calne, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Calne, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.