King's Lynn
TownTown in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England.
King's Lynn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for King's Lynn 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 57% of people in King's Lynn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How King's Lynn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is King's Lynn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in King's Lynn at a rate of 111.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 479 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in King's Lynn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,291), other crime (979) and shoplifting (578).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in King's Lynn was 113.7 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 King's Lynn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so King's Lynn has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- 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 King's Lynn
Your MP
- James WildConservativeMP for North West Norfolk
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 King's Lynn2
Middle areas in King's Lynn6
Towns near King's Lynn6
King's Lynn in brief
King's Lynn is a town in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England.
About 48,242 people lived in King's Lynn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 630 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 111.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in King's Lynn was £225,000 in 2025.
King's Lynn had 47,604 usual residents at the census.
About 57% of people in King's Lynn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In King's Lynn, 79.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.