Hailsham
TownTown in Wealden, South East.
Hailsham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hailsham 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 Hailsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hailsham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hailsham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hailsham at a rate of 81.3 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, 162 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hailsham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (622), anti-social behaviour (553) and other crime (316).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hailsham was 65.3 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 Hailsham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hailsham has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hailsham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealden 015A | 2,092 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.2% |
| Wealden 015B | 1,439 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.5% |
| Wealden 015C | 1,519 | 10.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.1% |
| Wealden 015D | 1,467 | 320.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.7% |
| Wealden 016A | 1,456 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.5% |
| Wealden 016B | 1,464 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Wealden 016C | 1,570 | 100.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.5% |
| Wealden 016D | 1,302 | 109.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.4% |
| Wealden 017A | 1,637 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 52.8% |
| Wealden 017B | 1,681 | 98.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 70.2% |
| Wealden 017C | 1,548 | 52.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.5% |
| Wealden 017D | 1,467 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.4% |
| Wealden 018E | 2,077 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Wealden 018J | 1,834 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
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 Hailsham1
Middle areas in Hailsham3
Towns near Hailsham6
Hailsham in brief
Hailsham is a town in Wealden, South East.
About 23,492 people lived in Hailsham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £309,000 in 2025 across 391 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hailsham was £309,000 in 2025.
Hailsham had 22,560 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hailsham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hailsham, 87.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.