Barton with Watcombe
WardNorth Torbay. About 11,983 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Barton with Watcombe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barton with Watcombe compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barton with Watcombe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barton with Watcombe at a rate of 101.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 109.4 per 1,000 people across Torbay.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barton with Watcombe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (528), shoplifting (177) and other crime (177).
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 Torbay
These figures are published for the whole of Torbay, not for each ward, so they describe all of Torbay and not Barton with Watcombe alone. See Torbay
Barton with Watcombe in brief
Barton with Watcombe had 12,231 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Barton with Watcombe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barton with Watcombe, 91.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Barton with Watcombe, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.