Is Devizes a good place to live?

Devizes has 19,491 residents, 75% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 86% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (8.9 per 1,000 a month) is below the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Devizes postcode.

Devizes recorded 8.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.

How many people live in Devizes?

19,491 people live in Devizes (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 15.6 km² — about 1,253 per km².

What are the schools like in Devizes?

There are 9 schools inside Devizes; 86% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Downland School, Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary School and Southbroom St James Academy.

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Town · in Wiltshire · South West · 13 neighbourhoods

Living in Devizes

Devizes is a town in Wiltshire, South West, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Devizes postcode.

Devizes is a town of 19,491 people at 1,253 per km², where 75% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 6 of its 7 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 8.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

Better-off than most towns
Typical crime for a town
Parks
Spacious
Weaker schools than most towns

19,491Devizes population

1,253people per km²

75%live in England's better-off half

8.9crimes per 1,000 a month

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schools stations parks15.6 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Devizes

What's in Devizes: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops

Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.

●Schools86% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding9

●GP practices · hospitals3 pharmacies, 8 dentists8 · 3

●Rail stations · bus stops0 · 134

●Parks & playing fields35.5 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)21

●Supermarkets8

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in Devizes

Best-rated schools in Devizes

1Downland SchoolOtherGood 2Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 3Southbroom St James AcademyPrimaryGood 4St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, DevizesPrimaryGood 5The Trinity Church of England Primary AcademyPrimaryGood

Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 9 schools → Schools in Devizes

03 — Devizes crime rate

Devizes crime rate

8.9crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08

Fewer than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 174 recorded crimes a month in all

Violent

ASB

Shoplifting

Public order

Vehicle

Burglary

England median for a town of this size · full bar = 10 per 1,000 a month · police.uk street-level data

04 — Questions about Devizes

Is Devizes a good place to live?: Devizes has 19,491 residents, 75% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 86% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (8.9 per 1,000 a month) is below the median English town of its size (9.8). Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Devizes postcode.
Is Devizes safe?: Devizes recorded 8.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary over 2026-06 to 2026-08 (police.uk), against 9.8 for the median English town of this size. The largest category was violent.
How many people live in Devizes?: 19,491 people live in Devizes (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 15.6 km² — about 1,253 per km².
What are the schools like in Devizes?: There are 9 schools inside Devizes; 86% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Downland School, Bishops Cannings Church of England Primary School and Southbroom St James Academy.
Where is Devizes?: Devizes is a town in Wiltshire, South West, England.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Devizes as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.

Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.