Capel St Mary
WardSouth east Babergh. About 3,407 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 7.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 88% of people in Capel St Mary live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Capel St Mary compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Capel St Mary safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Capel St Mary at a rate of 33.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 45.6 per 1,000 people across Babergh.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 4 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Capel St Mary.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (49), other crime (26) and anti-social behaviour (10).
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.
Figures for the whole of Babergh
These figures are published for the whole of Babergh, not for each ward, so they describe all of Babergh and not Capel St Mary alone. See Babergh
Capel St Mary in brief
Capel St Mary had 3,108 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Capel St Mary live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Capel St Mary, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Capel St Mary, 1.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.