Beccles
TownTown in East Suffolk, East of England.
Beccles is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Beccles add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Beccles live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Beccles compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Beccles safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Beccles at a rate of 62.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Beccles.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (275), other crime (106) and shoplifting (91).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Beccles was 74.5 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Beccles, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Beccles has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Beccles
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Suffolk 010A | 1,798 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.8% |
| East Suffolk 010B | 1,638 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.5% |
| East Suffolk 010C | 1,597 | 136.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.3% |
| East Suffolk 010D | 1,485 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.1% |
| East Suffolk 010E | 1,695 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| East Suffolk 011A | 1,853 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
Your MP
- Jess AsatoLabourMP for Lowestoft
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Beccles1
Middle areas in Beccles1
Towns near Beccles6
Beccles in brief
Beccles is a town in East Suffolk, East of England.
About 10,006 people lived in Beccles in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 181 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Beccles was £245,000 in 2025.
Beccles had 9,807 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Beccles live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Beccles, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.