Lewes
TownTown in Lewes, South East.
Lewes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lewes 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 Lewes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lewes compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lewes safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lewes at a rate of 111.6 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, 137 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lewes.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (530), anti-social behaviour (428) and other crime (312).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lewes was 111.3 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 Lewes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lewes has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lewes
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewes 003A | 1,806 | 75.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 72.0% |
| Lewes 003B | 1,259 | 217.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 75.1% |
| Lewes 003C | 1,770 | 187.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 36.2% |
| Lewes 003D | 1,413 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.5% |
| Lewes 003E | 1,511 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.1% |
| Lewes 003F | 1,621 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 57.3% |
| Lewes 005A | 1,330 | 137.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 73.5% |
| Lewes 005B | 1,756 | 179.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 72.7% |
| Lewes 005C | 1,500 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.5% |
| Lewes 005D | 1,233 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Lewes 005E | 1,520 | 72.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.1% |
Your MP
- James MacClearyLiberal DemocratMP for Lewes
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 Lewes1
Middle areas in Lewes2
Towns near Lewes6
Lewes in brief
Lewes is a town in Lewes, South East.
About 15,783 people lived in Lewes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £460,000 in 2025 across 272 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 111.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lewes was £460,000 in 2025.
Lewes had 16,066 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Lewes live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lewes, 71.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.