Crowborough
TownTown in Wealden, South East.
Crowborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crowborough 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 Crowborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Crowborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Crowborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crowborough at a rate of 46.2 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, 121 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crowborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (414), anti-social behaviour (213) and other crime (190).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crowborough was 41.7 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 Crowborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crowborough has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Crowborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealden 003A | 1,922 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.9% |
| Wealden 003B | 1,796 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Wealden 003C | 2,311 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| Wealden 004A | 2,339 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.7% |
| Wealden 004B | 1,698 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.9% |
| Wealden 004C | 1,640 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wealden 004D | 1,607 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.9% |
| Wealden 006A | 1,857 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.3% |
| Wealden 006B | 1,833 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Wealden 006C | 1,999 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Wealden 006D | 1,463 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wealden 006E | 1,223 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Ms Nusrat GhaniConservativeMP for Sussex Weald
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 Crowborough1
Middle areas in Crowborough3
Towns near Crowborough6
Crowborough in brief
Crowborough is a town in Wealden, South East.
About 23,010 people lived in Crowborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £445,000 in 2025 across 435 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 46.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crowborough was £445,000 in 2025.
Crowborough had 21,990 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Crowborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Crowborough, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.