Crap Towns / Thornbury / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Thornbury?
In January 2026, 0.7% of premises in Thornbury couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 40% higher than the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 2 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 91.5% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 2 | less than 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 48 | 0.7% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 6,584 | 91.5% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Stoke Gifford | 11.5 km | 3.7 |
| Patchway | 9.6 km | 2.5 |
| Bradley Stoke | 9.1 km | 2.3 |
| Lydney | 12.7 km | 0.8 |
| Thornbury | – | 0.7 |
| Filton | 11.4 km | 0.6 |
| Yate | 9.6 km | 0.3 |
| Chipping Sodbury | 11.7 km | 0.3 |
| Dursley | 14.0 km | 0.3 |
| Chepstow | 12.0 km | 0.2 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 9.2 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |