Burgess Hill
TownTown in Mid Sussex, South East.
Burgess Hill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Burgess Hill 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 Burgess Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Burgess Hill compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Burgess Hill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Burgess Hill at a rate of 71.8 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, 217 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Burgess Hill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (715), anti-social behaviour (689) and other crime (430).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Burgess Hill was 67.7 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 Burgess Hill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Burgess Hill has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Burgess Hill
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Sussex 012A | 1,608 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 012B | 1,615 | 62.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 012C | 1,937 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.0% |
| Mid Sussex 012D | 1,901 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.3% |
| Mid Sussex 013A | 1,721 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.5% |
| Mid Sussex 013B | 1,681 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Mid Sussex 013D | 1,447 | 118.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Mid Sussex 013E | 1,709 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Mid Sussex 013F | 1,568 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Mid Sussex 013G | 1,713 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.4% |
| Mid Sussex 014A | 1,565 | 136.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.9% |
| Mid Sussex 014B | 1,475 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.8% |
| Mid Sussex 014C | 1,773 | 232.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 61.7% |
| Mid Sussex 014D | 1,770 | 135.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.9% |
| Mid Sussex 014E | 1,173 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Mid Sussex 014F | 1,378 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| Mid Sussex 015A | 1,632 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.4% |
| Mid Sussex 015B | 1,757 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.7% |
| Mid Sussex 015C | 1,416 | 19.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 015D | 1,651 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Alison BennettLiberal DemocratMP for Mid Sussex
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 Burgess Hill1
Middle areas in Burgess Hill4
Towns near Burgess Hill6
Burgess Hill in brief
Burgess Hill is a town in Mid Sussex, South East.
About 35,272 people lived in Burgess Hill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £400,000 in 2025 across 621 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Burgess Hill was £400,000 in 2025.
Burgess Hill had 33,352 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Burgess Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Burgess Hill, 89.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.