# Lancing and Sompting

Town in Adur, South East.

Lancing and Sompting is a town in Adur, South East. Median sale price £350,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 67.7 per 1,000 people. About 28,306 people.

Town. Code E63006542. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Adur](https://openindex.co.uk/adur)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £350,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Lancing and Sompting was £350,000 in 2025. Joint 267th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancing-and-sompting#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 27,924** (2021). Lancing and Sompting had 27,924 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 400th most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancing-and-sompting#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (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. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancing-and-sompting#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.4%** (January 2026). In Lancing and Sompting, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancing-and-sompting#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63006542) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63006542) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 469 homes were sold in Lancing and Sompting in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63006542) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Lancing and Sompting.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63006542) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Lancing and Sompting had 27,924 usual residents at the census.

## How Lancing and Sompting compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Lancing and Sompting | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £350,000 | joint 65th cheapest | 209 towns, South East · 2025 |
| Population | 27,924 | 75th most populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.4% | joint 39th highest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Lancing and Sompting

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Adur 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031345) | 1,593 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| [Adur 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031353) | 1,384 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.4% |
| [Adur 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031354) | 1,305 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| [Adur 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031355) | 1,816 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| [Adur 003E](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031359) | 1,402 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| [Adur 006A](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031344) | 1,442 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Adur 006B](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031346) | 1,456 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| [Adur 006C](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031361) | 1,513 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| [Adur 006D](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031362) | 1,345 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| [Adur 006E](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031363) | 1,538 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| [Adur 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031358) | 1,511 | 83.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.8% |
| [Adur 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031360) | 1,552 | 107.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| [Adur 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031376) | 1,271 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.3% |
| [Adur 007D](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031378) | 1,390 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.9% |
| [Adur 008A](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031341) | 1,471 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| [Adur 008B](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031342) | 1,601 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| [Adur 008C](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031343) | 1,375 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Adur 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031377) | 1,702 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.0% |
| [Adur 008E](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/neighbourhood/e01031379) | 1,625 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |

## Your MP

- [East Worthing and Shoreham](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/east-worthing-and-shoreham): Tom Rutland (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Adur](https://openindex.co.uk/adur)

## Postcode districts covering Lancing and Sompting

[BN15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/bn15)

## Middle areas in Lancing and Sompting

[Cokeham & Sompting](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/cokeham-and-sompting), [Marsh Barn & Widewater](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/marsh-barn-and-widewater), [North Lancing](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/north-lancing), [South Lancing](https://openindex.co.uk/adur/south-lancing)

## Towns near Lancing and Sompting

[Shoreham-by-Sea](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shoreham-by-sea), [Worthing](https://openindex.co.uk/worthing), [Southwick](https://openindex.co.uk/town/southwick), [Brighton and Hove](https://openindex.co.uk/brighton-and-hove), [Rustington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rustington), [Storrington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/storrington)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63006542
- Constituency: [East Worthing and Shoreham †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/east-worthing-and-shoreham)
- Council: [Adur †](https://openindex.co.uk/adur)
- Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 8.14 km²
- People, mid-2024: 28,306*
- Neighbourhoods: 19
- Output areas: 94

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Shoreham-by-Sea](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shoreham-by-sea), [Worthing](https://openindex.co.uk/worthing), [Southwick](https://openindex.co.uk/town/southwick), [Brighton and Hove](https://openindex.co.uk/brighton-and-hove), [Rustington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rustington), [Storrington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/storrington)

## Latest updates for Lancing and Sompting

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63006542

## How to cite

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancing-and-sompting