Heysham
TownTown in Lancaster, North West.
Heysham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heysham 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 100% of people in Heysham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heysham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heysham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heysham at a rate of 88.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 126 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heysham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (633), anti-social behaviour (289) and other crime (202).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Heysham was 104.1 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 Heysham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heysham has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Heysham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster 008D | 1,370 | 91.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| Lancaster 009B | 1,349 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.3% |
| Lancaster 009D | 1,414 | 128.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.4% |
| Lancaster 016A | 1,522 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Lancaster 016B | 1,503 | 69.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Lancaster 016C | 2,040 | 65.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.4% |
| Lancaster 016D | 1,667 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.5% |
| Lancaster 016E | 2,632 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.4% |
| Lancaster 016F | 1,563 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
Your MP
- Lizzi CollingeLabourMP for Morecambe and Lunesdale
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 Heysham1
Middle areas in Heysham1
Towns near Heysham6
Heysham in brief
Heysham is a town in Lancaster, North West.
About 16,461 people lived in Heysham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,000 in 2025 across 285 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Heysham was £195,000 in 2025.
Heysham had 16,593 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Heysham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heysham, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.