Bexhill-on-Sea
TownTown in Rother, South East.
Bexhill-on-Sea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bexhill-on-Sea 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 Bexhill-on-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bexhill-on-Sea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bexhill-on-Sea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bexhill-on-Sea at a rate of 86.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 347 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bexhill-on-Sea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,317), anti-social behaviour (840) and other crime (641).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bexhill-on-Sea was 90.2 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 Bexhill-on-Sea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bexhill-on-Sea has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bexhill-on-Sea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rother 007A | 1,082 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 76.3% |
| Rother 007B | 1,705 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.3% |
| Rother 007C | 1,561 | 116.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Rother 007D | 1,947 | 186.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Rother 007E | 1,356 | 120.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rother 007F | 1,670 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.9% |
| Rother 008A | 1,391 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.9% |
| Rother 008B | 1,546 | 206.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 55.2% |
| Rother 008C | 1,581 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 83.4% |
| Rother 008D | 1,599 | 56.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| Rother 008E | 1,936 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 77.6% |
| Rother 009A | 1,432 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 83.7% |
| Rother 009B | 1,264 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.2% |
| Rother 009C | 1,537 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 82.9% |
| Rother 009D | 2,146 | 52.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.3% |
| Rother 009E | 1,284 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 63.0% |
| Rother 009F | 1,723 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Rother 009G | 1,145 | 95.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.0% |
| Rother 010A | 1,484 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.6% |
| Rother 010B | 1,712 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 65.4% |
| Rother 010C | 1,531 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.8% |
| Rother 010D | 1,492 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.7% |
| Rother 010E | 1,492 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.9% |
| Rother 011A | 1,688 | 162.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.2% |
| Rother 011B | 2,055 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.8% |
| Rother 011C | 2,135 | 162.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.9% |
| Rother 011D | 1,577 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.7% |
| Rother 011E | 1,505 | 172.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.8% |
Your MP
- Dr Kieran MullanConservativeMP for Bexhill and Battle
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 Bexhill-on-Sea2
Middle areas in Bexhill-on-Sea5
Towns near Bexhill-on-Sea6
Bexhill-on-Sea in brief
Bexhill-on-Sea is a town in Rother, South East.
About 45,405 people lived in Bexhill-on-Sea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 745 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bexhill-on-Sea was £310,000 in 2025.
Bexhill-on-Sea had 43,750 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bexhill-on-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bexhill-on-Sea, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.