Lowestoft
TownTown in East Suffolk, East of England.
Lowestoft is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lowestoft 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 0% of people in Lowestoft live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lowestoft compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lowestoft safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lowestoft at a rate of 92.4 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, 553 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lowestoft.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,760), other crime (1,038) and anti-social behaviour (787).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lowestoft was 82.2 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 Lowestoft, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lowestoft has no single figure. Of its 45 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lowestoft
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Suffolk 001A | 1,573 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 001C | 1,398 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 002A | 1,508 | 138.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 002B | 1,282 | 149.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 002C | 1,168 | 151.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.1% |
| East Suffolk 002D | 1,415 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 002E | 2,609 | 69.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 003A | 1,623 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| East Suffolk 003B | 2,201 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| East Suffolk 003C | 1,419 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 003D | 1,539 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 003E | 1,366 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 004A | 1,412 | 120.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 004B | 1,573 | 84.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| East Suffolk 004C | 1,784 | 261.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| East Suffolk 004D | 2,032 | 347.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| East Suffolk 004E | 1,491 | 158.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 004F | 1,440 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| East Suffolk 005A | 1,276 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 005B | 1,489 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.5% |
| East Suffolk 005C | 1,564 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| East Suffolk 005D | 1,505 | 118.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| East Suffolk 005E | 1,455 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| East Suffolk 006A | 1,892 | 340.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| East Suffolk 006B | 1,408 | 65.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 006C | 1,514 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 006D | 1,598 | 307.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| East Suffolk 006E | 1,218 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 007A | 1,462 | 15.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| East Suffolk 007B | 1,496 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| East Suffolk 007C | 1,313 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| East Suffolk 007D | 1,636 | 14.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% |
| East Suffolk 007E | 1,416 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 008A | 1,552 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| East Suffolk 008B | 1,861 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| East Suffolk 008C | 2,912 | 31.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| East Suffolk 008D | 1,753 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| East Suffolk 009A | 1,538 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| East Suffolk 009B | 1,201 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.3% |
| East Suffolk 009C | 1,152 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| East Suffolk 009D | 1,377 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| East Suffolk 009E | 1,473 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 012A | 1,912 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 012E | 1,547 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| East Suffolk 012F | 1,456 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Jess AsatoLabourMP for Lowestoft
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 Lowestoft2
Middle areas in Lowestoft8
Towns near Lowestoft6
Lowestoft in brief
Lowestoft is a town in East Suffolk, East of England.
About 71,919 people lived in Lowestoft in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 1,009 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lowestoft was £220,000 in 2025.
Lowestoft had 71,308 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Lowestoft live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lowestoft, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.