East Grinstead
TownTown in Mid Sussex, South East.
East Grinstead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for East Grinstead 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 Grinstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How East Grinstead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is East Grinstead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in East Grinstead at a rate of 59.9 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, 142 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in East Grinstead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (532), anti-social behaviour (443) and other crime (298).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in East Grinstead was 56.6 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 Grinstead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so East Grinstead has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 East Grinstead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Sussex 001A | 1,967 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 001B | 1,809 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 001C | 1,733 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Mid Sussex 001D | 1,556 | 14.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Mid Sussex 001E | 2,195 | 123.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.0% |
| Mid Sussex 001G | 1,681 | 137.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.3% |
| Mid Sussex 001H | 1,171 | 157.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
| Mid Sussex 001I | 1,167 | 46.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.6% |
| Mid Sussex 003A | 1,437 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 74.5% |
| Mid Sussex 003C | 2,228 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Mid Sussex 003D | 1,783 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Mid Sussex 003E | 1,579 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Mid Sussex 004A | 1,643 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.5% |
| Mid Sussex 004B | 1,589 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Mid Sussex 004C | 1,536 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 004D | 1,888 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Mid Sussex 004E | 1,304 | 105.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
Your MP
- Mims DaviesConservativeMP for East Grinstead and Uckfield
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 Grinstead1
Middle areas in East Grinstead3
Towns near East Grinstead6
East Grinstead in brief
East Grinstead is a town in Mid Sussex, South East.
About 27,534 people lived in East Grinstead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £410,000 in 2025 across 451 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in East Grinstead was £410,000 in 2025.
East Grinstead had 26,350 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in East Grinstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In East Grinstead, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.