Hessle
TownTown in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Hessle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hessle 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 Hessle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hessle compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hessle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hessle at a rate of 64.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 95 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hessle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (434), other crime (219) and anti-social behaviour (132).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hessle was 62.5 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 Hessle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hessle has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- 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 Hessle
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire 034A | 1,389 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 034B | 1,556 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 034C | 1,437 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 034D | 1,395 | 25.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 036A | 1,966 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 036B | 1,485 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 036C | 1,518 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 036D | 1,792 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 043A | 1,527 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 043B | 1,420 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Emma HardyLabourMP for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice
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 Hessle1
Middle areas in Hessle2
Towns near Hessle6
Hessle in brief
Hessle is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 16,650 people lived in Hessle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 299 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hessle was £200,000 in 2025.
Hessle had 15,489 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hessle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hessle, 99.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.