Crap Towns / Bristol / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Bristol?
In January 2026, 2.2% of premises in Bristol couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 4.4 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 512 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 94.2% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 512 | 0.3% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 4,283 | 2.2% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 186,416 | 94.2% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Long Ashton | 5.6 km | 3.7 |
| Stoke Gifford | 6.9 km | 3.7 |
| Patchway | 8.9 km | 2.5 |
| Nailsea | 12.3 km | 2.3 |
| Bradley Stoke | 9.2 km | 2.3 |
| Bristol | – | 2.2 |
| Keynsham | 7.9 km | 1.6 |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 6.7 km | 0.8 |
| Filton | 7.0 km | 0.6 |
| Portishead | 13.0 km | 0.3 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 11.2 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |