Melksham
TownTown in Wiltshire, South West.
Melksham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Melksham 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 Melksham, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Melksham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Melksham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Melksham at a rate of 74.6 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, 150 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Melksham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (522), anti-social behaviour (343) and other crime (195).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Melksham was 69.2 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 Melksham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Melksham has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Melksham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiltshire 020A | 2,227 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.5% |
| Wiltshire 020B | 1,328 | 79.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Wiltshire 020C | 1,553 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| Wiltshire 020D | 1,408 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.7% |
| Wiltshire 020E | 1,298 | 17.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Wiltshire 021G | 1,466 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 68.1% |
| Wiltshire 021H | 1,463 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.1% |
| Wiltshire 022A | 1,913 | 194.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 79.3% |
| Wiltshire 022B | 1,656 | 57.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.1% |
| Wiltshire 022C | 1,426 | 108.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Wiltshire 022D | 1,384 | 133.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.5% |
| Wiltshire 022E | 1,225 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Brian MathewLiberal DemocratMP for Melksham and Devizes
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 Melksham1
Middle areas in Melksham2
Towns near Melksham6
Melksham in brief
Melksham is a town in Wiltshire, South West.
About 18,651 people lived in Melksham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £272,750 in 2025 across 318 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Melksham was £272,750 in 2025.
Melksham had 18,277 usual residents at the census.
In Melksham, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Melksham, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.