Lymington
TownTown in New Forest, South East.
Lymington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lymington 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 79% of people in Lymington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lymington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lymington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lymington at a rate of 57.1 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, 90 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lymington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (350), other crime (196) and anti-social behaviour (85).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lymington was 61.8 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 Lymington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lymington has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lymington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest 017C | 1,593 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.4% |
| New Forest 017D | 1,629 | 160.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 46.5% |
| New Forest 017E | 1,663 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.6% |
| New Forest 019A | 2,031 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.4% |
| New Forest 019B | 1,677 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.3% |
| New Forest 019C | 1,438 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.5% |
| New Forest 019D | 1,543 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.3% |
| New Forest 019E | 1,435 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.6% |
| New Forest 023A | 1,098 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.8% |
| New Forest 023E | 1,731 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 75.5% |
Your MP
- Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeMP for New Forest West
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 Lymington1
Middle areas in Lymington2
Towns near Lymington6
Lymington in brief
Lymington is a town in New Forest, South East.
About 14,736 people lived in Lymington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £400,000 in 2025 across 288 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lymington was £400,000 in 2025.
Lymington had 14,870 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Lymington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lymington, 74.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.