Is Patchway a good place to live?

Patchway has 16,517 residents, 18% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (20.5 per 1,000 a month) is above 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 Patchway postcode.

Patchway recorded 20.5 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 shoplifting.

How many people live in Patchway?

16,517 people live in Patchway (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 7.3 km² — about 2,265 per km².

What are the schools like in Patchway?

There are 8 schools inside Patchway; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Callicroft Primary School, Charlton Wood Primary Academy and Coniston Primary School.

Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, South West, England, served by Bristol Brabazon railway station.

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Living in Patchway

Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, 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 Patchway postcode.

Patchway is a town of 16,517 people at 2,265 per km², where 18% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 6 of its 6 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and it recorded 20.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a month.

Good schools
Railway station
Parks
Higher crime than most towns
More deprived than most towns

16,517Patchway population

2,265people per km²

18%live in England's better-off half

20.5crimes per 1,000 a month

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schools stations parks7.3 km² · ONS built-up area boundary

01 — What's in Patchway

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

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

●Schools100% of inspected rated Good or Outstanding8

●GP practices · hospitals6 pharmacies, 1 dentists5 · 0

●Rail stations · bus stopsBristol Brabazon1 · 120

●Parks & playing fields28.9 ha — (·· ha), (·· ha), (·· ha)11

●Supermarkets13

●Libraries1

02 — Schools in Patchway

Best-rated schools in Patchway

1Callicroft Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 2Charlton Wood Primary AcademyPrimaryGood 3Coniston Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 4Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryGood 5St Chad's Patchway CofE Primary SchoolPrimaryGood

Ranked by Ofsted grade.

03 — Patchway crime rate

Patchway crime rate

20.5crimes per 1,000 residents a month inside the town boundary · 2026-06 to 2026-08

More than the median English town of this size (9.8) · 339 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 Patchway

Is Patchway a good place to live?: Patchway has 16,517 residents, 18% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding, and recorded crime (20.5 per 1,000 a month) is above 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 Patchway postcode.
Is Patchway safe?: Patchway recorded 20.5 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 shoplifting.
How many people live in Patchway?: 16,517 people live in Patchway (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 7.3 km² — about 2,265 per km².
What are the schools like in Patchway?: There are 8 schools inside Patchway; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Callicroft Primary School, Charlton Wood Primary Academy and Coniston Primary School.
Where is Patchway?: Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, South West, England, served by Bristol Brabazon railway station.

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This page is NestScope's guide to Patchway 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.