Cowes
TownTown in Isle of Wight, South East.
Cowes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cowes 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 Cowes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cowes compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cowes safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cowes at a rate of 51.6 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, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cowes.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (388), other crime (128) and anti-social behaviour (83).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cowes was 48.5 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 Cowes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cowes has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cowes
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight 001A | 2,151 | 104.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Isle of Wight 001B | 1,186 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Isle of Wight 001C | 1,524 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Isle of Wight 001D | 1,368 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Isle of Wight 002A | 1,073 | 47.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Isle of Wight 002B | 1,756 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Isle of Wight 002C | 1,388 | 40.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Isle of Wight 002D | 2,088 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.9% |
| Isle of Wight 002E | 2,279 | 26.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.8% |
Your MP
- Richard QuigleyLabourMP for Isle of Wight West
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 Cowes1
Middle areas in Cowes2
Towns near Cowes6
Cowes in brief
Cowes is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.
About 14,502 people lived in Cowes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £301,250 in 2025 across 244 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 51.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cowes was £301,250 in 2025.
Cowes had 14,366 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Cowes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cowes, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.