Castle
WardSouth Hastings. About 6,861 people in 1.0 square kilometre.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Castle compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Castle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Castle at a rate of 458.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 146.8 per 1,000 people across Hastings.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 415 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Castle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (803), anti-social behaviour (689) and shoplifting (653).
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 Hastings
These figures are published for the whole of Hastings, not for each ward, so they describe all of Hastings and not Castle alone. See Hastings
Castle in brief
Castle had 6,879 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Castle, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Castle, 7.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.