Felixstowe
TownTown in East Suffolk, East of England.
Felixstowe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Felixstowe 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 40% of people in Felixstowe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Felixstowe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Felixstowe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Felixstowe at a rate of 55.5 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, 115 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Felixstowe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (643), other crime (249) and anti-social behaviour (128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Felixstowe was 57.0 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 Felixstowe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Felixstowe has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Felixstowe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Suffolk 027A | 1,855 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| East Suffolk 028A | 1,453 | 24.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.7% |
| East Suffolk 028B | 1,487 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.1% |
| East Suffolk 028C | 1,531 | 11.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 028D | 1,454 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| East Suffolk 028E | 2,310 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 029A | 1,558 | 90.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| East Suffolk 029B | 1,688 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 029C | 1,418 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| East Suffolk 029D | 1,577 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.8% |
| East Suffolk 029E | 1,697 | 52.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| East Suffolk 030A | 1,484 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| East Suffolk 030B | 1,791 | 142.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| East Suffolk 030C | 1,707 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.9% |
| East Suffolk 030D | 1,324 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.0% |
Your MP
- Jenny Riddell-CarpenterLabourMP for Suffolk Coastal
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 Felixstowe1
Middle areas in Felixstowe3
Towns near Felixstowe6
Felixstowe in brief
Felixstowe is a town in East Suffolk, East of England.
About 24,938 people lived in Felixstowe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 450 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 55.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Felixstowe was £300,000 in 2025.
Felixstowe had 24,218 usual residents at the census.
About 40% of people in Felixstowe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Felixstowe, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.