Crap Towns / Patchway / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Patchway?
In January 2026, 2.5% of premises in Patchway couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 5.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 132 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 91.9% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 132 | 1.5% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 214 | 2.5% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 7,867 | 91.9% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Long Ashton | 12.7 km | 3.7 |
| Stoke Gifford | 3.6 km | 3.7 |
| Patchway | – | 2.5 |
| Bradley Stoke | 2.1 km | 2.3 |
| Bristol | 8.9 km | 2.2 |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 8.2 km | 0.8 |
| Thornbury | 9.6 km | 0.7 |
| Filton | 2.0 km | 0.6 |
| Yate | 10.8 km | 0.3 |
| Chipping Sodbury | 13.0 km | 0.3 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 6.6 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |