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Great Yarmouth

Town

Town in Great Yarmouth, East of England.

Great Yarmouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Great Yarmouth 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Great Yarmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£146,000
Joint 43rd cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
28,979
383rd most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
85.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Great Yarmouth compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Great YarmouthMiddle
Median sale price130 towns, East of England · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East of England130 areas from £146,000 to £1,082,500. The middle area is £346,125. Great Yarmouth is £146,000.
£146,000cheapest
Population130 towns, East of England · 2021
Population: every town in East of England130 areas from 7,522 to 233,524. The middle area is 19,408. Great Yarmouth is 28,979.
28,97941st most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares130 towns, East of England · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East of England130 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 0.0%. Great Yarmouth is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East of England130 areas from 45.6% to 98.3%. The middle area is 92.4%. Great Yarmouth is 85.5%.
85.5%joint 29th lowest

Is Great Yarmouth safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Yarmouth at a rate of 234.3 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, 696 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Yarmouth.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,859), other crime (1,284) and anti-social behaviour (970).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Great Yarmouth was 237.1 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 Great Yarmouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Great Yarmouth has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Great Yarmouth

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Great Yarmouth 004A1,43065.9 per 1,000199.7%
Great Yarmouth 004B1,56458.5 per 1,000399.7%
Great Yarmouth 004C1,496151.4 per 1,000397.5%
Great Yarmouth 004D1,409144.8 per 1,0001100.0%
Great Yarmouth 005A1,758163.7 per 1,000190.9%
Great Yarmouth 005B1,580157.9 per 1,000290.4%
Great Yarmouth 005C1,995620.2 per 1,000177.5%
Great Yarmouth 005D1,877291.9 per 1,000189.4%
Great Yarmouth 006A1,635207.9 per 1,000185.6%
Great Yarmouth 006B1,838362.0 per 1,000164.0%
Great Yarmouth 006C1,939280.2 per 1,000176.3%
Great Yarmouth 006D1,832262.1 per 1,000154.2%
Great Yarmouth 006E2,098354.9 per 1,000192.4%
Great Yarmouth 007A1,468123.6 per 1,000297.2%
Great Yarmouth 007B1,763101.3 per 1,000278.8%
Great Yarmouth 007C1,519240.1 per 1,000199.0%
Great Yarmouth 007D2,404175.7 per 1,000193.7%

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As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Great Yarmouth2

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Towns near Great Yarmouth6

Great Yarmouth in brief

Great Yarmouth is a town in Great Yarmouth, East of England.

About 29,134 people lived in Great Yarmouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £146,000 in 2025 across 329 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 234.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Great Yarmouth was £146,000 in 2025.

Great Yarmouth had 28,979 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Great Yarmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Great Yarmouth, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.