Lancing and Sompting
TownTown in Adur, South East.
Lancing and Sompting is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lancing and Sompting 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 Lancing and Sompting live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lancing and Sompting compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lancing and Sompting safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lancing and Sompting at a rate of 67.7 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, 222 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lancing and Sompting.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (634), anti-social behaviour (512) and other crime (383).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lancing and Sompting was 76.5 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 Lancing and Sompting, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lancing and Sompting has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 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 Lancing and Sompting
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adur 003A | 1,593 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Adur 003B | 1,384 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.4% |
| Adur 003C | 1,305 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Adur 003D | 1,816 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Adur 003E | 1,402 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Adur 006A | 1,442 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Adur 006B | 1,456 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| Adur 006C | 1,513 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| Adur 006D | 1,345 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| Adur 006E | 1,538 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Adur 007A | 1,511 | 83.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.8% |
| Adur 007B | 1,552 | 107.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Adur 007C | 1,271 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.3% |
| Adur 007D | 1,390 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.9% |
| Adur 008A | 1,471 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Adur 008B | 1,601 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Adur 008C | 1,375 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Adur 008D | 1,702 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.0% |
| Adur 008E | 1,625 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
Your MP
- Tom RutlandLabourMP for East Worthing and Shoreham
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 Lancing and Sompting1
Middle areas in Lancing and Sompting4
Towns near Lancing and Sompting6
Lancing and Sompting in brief
Lancing and Sompting is a town in Adur, South East.
About 28,306 people lived in Lancing and Sompting in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 469 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lancing and Sompting was £350,000 in 2025.
Lancing and Sompting had 27,924 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Lancing and Sompting live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lancing and Sompting, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.