Heathfield
TownTown in Wealden, South East.
Heathfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heathfield 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 Heathfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heathfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heathfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heathfield at a rate of 44.6 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, 41 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heathfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (121), anti-social behaviour (91) and other crime (56).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Heathfield was 42.0 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 Heathfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heathfield has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Heathfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealden 010A | 1,445 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.5% |
| Wealden 010B | 1,617 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.2% |
| Wealden 010C | 1,522 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Wealden 010D | 1,787 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.3% |
| Wealden 010E | 1,709 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
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 Heathfield1
Middle areas in Heathfield1
Towns near Heathfield6
Heathfield in brief
Heathfield is a town in Wealden, South East.
About 7,848 people lived in Heathfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £319,500 in 2025 across 137 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 44.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Heathfield was £319,500 in 2025.
Heathfield had 7,663 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Heathfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heathfield, 88.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.