Littlehampton
TownTown in Arun, South East.
Littlehampton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Littlehampton 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 98% of people in Littlehampton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Littlehampton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Littlehampton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Littlehampton at a rate of 127.2 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, 234 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Littlehampton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (799), anti-social behaviour (522) and other crime (451).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Littlehampton was 133.5 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 Littlehampton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Littlehampton has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Littlehampton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arun 007A | 1,501 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Arun 007B | 2,100 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.7% |
| Arun 007C | 1,289 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.7% |
| Arun 009A | 1,466 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.1% |
| Arun 009B | 1,647 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.9% |
| Arun 009C | 1,439 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Arun 009D | 1,656 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 70.4% |
| Arun 011A | 1,592 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 73.7% |
| Arun 011B | 1,538 | 126.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.2% |
| Arun 011C | 2,507 | 383.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 68.9% |
| Arun 011D | 1,747 | 140.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 60.9% |
Your MP
- Alison GriffithsConservativeMP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
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 Littlehampton1
Middle areas in Littlehampton2
Towns near Littlehampton6
Littlehampton in brief
Littlehampton is a town in Arun, South East.
About 19,212 people lived in Littlehampton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 322 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 127.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Littlehampton was £300,000 in 2025.
Littlehampton had 19,060 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in Littlehampton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Littlehampton, 81.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.