Cromer
TownTown in North Norfolk, East of England.
Cromer is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cromer 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 Cromer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cromer compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cromer safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cromer at a rate of 72.2 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, 65 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cromer.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (203), anti-social behaviour (89) and other crime (89).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cromer was 74.0 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 Cromer, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cromer has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Cromer
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Norfolk 003A | 1,032 | 173.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.5% |
| North Norfolk 003B | 1,143 | 115.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.4% |
| North Norfolk 003C | 1,293 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 67.8% |
| North Norfolk 003D | 1,308 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 66.7% |
| North Norfolk 003E | 1,367 | 22.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.7% |
| North Norfolk 003F | 1,399 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Steff AquaroneLiberal DemocratMP for North Norfolk
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 Cromer1
Middle areas in Cromer1
Towns near Cromer4
Cromer in brief
Cromer is a town in North Norfolk, East of England.
About 7,511 people lived in Cromer in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £252,500 in 2025 across 112 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cromer was £252,500 in 2025.
Cromer had 7,522 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Cromer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cromer, 83.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.