East Cowes
TownTown in Isle of Wight, South East.
East Cowes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for East 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 East Cowes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How East Cowes compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is East Cowes safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in East Cowes at a rate of 72.5 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, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in East Cowes.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (264), other crime (92) and anti-social behaviour (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in East Cowes was 72.8 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 East Cowes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so East Cowes has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 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 East Cowes
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight 001E | 1,571 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.1% |
| Isle of Wight 003A | 2,351 | 88.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.5% |
| Isle of Wight 003B | 1,735 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.0% |
| Isle of Wight 003D | 1,858 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.0% |
| Isle of Wight 003E | 1,762 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
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 East Cowes1
Middle areas in East Cowes1
Towns near East Cowes6
East Cowes in brief
East Cowes is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.
About 8,423 people lived in East Cowes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £229,000 in 2025 across 136 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in East Cowes was £229,000 in 2025.
East Cowes had 8,424 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in East Cowes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In East Cowes, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.