Hornsea
TownTown in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Hornsea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hornsea 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 Hornsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hornsea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hornsea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hornsea at a rate of 62.6 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, 51 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hornsea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (258), other crime (99) and criminal damage and arson (69).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hornsea was 57.3 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 Hornsea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hornsea has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hornsea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire 012A | 1,606 | 47.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 012B | 1,542 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 012C | 1,668 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 012D | 1,722 | 66.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.5% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire 012E | 1,664 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Charlie DewhirstConservativeMP for Bridlington and The Wolds
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 Hornsea1
Middle areas in Hornsea1
Towns near Hornsea6
Hornsea in brief
Hornsea is a town in East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 8,853 people lived in Hornsea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £218,000 in 2025 across 208 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hornsea was £218,000 in 2025.
Hornsea had 8,797 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hornsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hornsea, 99.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.