Haywards Heath
TownTown in Mid Sussex, South East.
Haywards Heath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Haywards Heath 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 Haywards Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Haywards Heath compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Haywards Heath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Haywards Heath at a rate of 53.5 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, 193 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Haywards Heath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (767), anti-social behaviour (560) and other crime (434).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Haywards Heath was 53.2 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 Haywards Heath, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Haywards Heath has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Haywards Heath
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Sussex 008A | 1,405 | 23.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.9% |
| Mid Sussex 008B | 1,801 | 19.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| Mid Sussex 008C | 2,058 | 72.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| Mid Sussex 008D | 1,905 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Mid Sussex 008E | 2,497 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.3% |
| Mid Sussex 008F | 1,811 | 21.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.1% |
| Mid Sussex 009A | 2,616 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.6% |
| Mid Sussex 009B | 1,736 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.9% |
| Mid Sussex 009E | 2,472 | 46.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.6% |
| Mid Sussex 009F | 1,479 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 009G | 1,290 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Mid Sussex 009H | 1,210 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.0% |
| Mid Sussex 009I | 1,024 | 236.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 75.7% |
| Mid Sussex 010A | 1,878 | 83.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| Mid Sussex 010B | 1,434 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| Mid Sussex 010C | 1,599 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.1% |
| Mid Sussex 010D | 1,426 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
| Mid Sussex 010E | 1,414 | 66.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| Mid Sussex 011C | 1,528 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.5% |
| Mid Sussex 011D | 1,481 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Mid Sussex 011F | 2,084 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Mid Sussex 011H | 1,303 | 93.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 59.6% |
| Mid Sussex 011I | 1,644 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.6% |
| Mid Sussex 011J | 1,745 | 62.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.1% |
Your MP
- Alison BennettLiberal DemocratMP for Mid Sussex
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 Haywards Heath1
Middle areas in Haywards Heath4
Towns near Haywards Heath6
Haywards Heath in brief
Haywards Heath is a town in Mid Sussex, South East.
About 42,150 people lived in Haywards Heath in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £425,000 in 2025 across 719 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Haywards Heath was £425,000 in 2025.
Haywards Heath had 40,186 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Haywards Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Haywards Heath, 91.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.