Lower Culm
WardEast Mid Devon. About 7,142 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 33 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Lower Culm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lower Culm compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lower Culm safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lower Culm at a rate of 51.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 57.7 per 1,000 people across Mid Devon.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 26 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lower Culm.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (175), other crime (41) and criminal damage and arson (40).
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 Mid Devon
These figures are published for the whole of Mid Devon, not for each ward, so they describe all of Mid Devon and not Lower Culm alone. See Mid Devon
Lower Culm in brief
Lower Culm had 6,932 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Lower Culm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lower Culm, 74.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Lower Culm, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.