Morecambe
TownTown in Lancaster, North West.
Morecambe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Morecambe 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 71% of people in Morecambe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Morecambe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Morecambe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Morecambe at a rate of 144.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 366 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Morecambe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,673), anti-social behaviour (1,021) and other crime (740).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Morecambe was 145.9 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 Morecambe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Morecambe has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Morecambe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster 004A | 1,444 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Lancaster 004B | 1,342 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.0% |
| Lancaster 004C | 1,291 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.5% |
| Lancaster 004D | 1,078 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Lancaster 006A | 1,568 | 215.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.3% |
| Lancaster 006B | 1,542 | 233.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.7% |
| Lancaster 006C | 1,373 | 121.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Lancaster 006D | 1,565 | 498.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 58.4% |
| Lancaster 006E | 1,417 | 148.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.3% |
| Lancaster 008A | 1,813 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 008B | 1,517 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 008C | 1,076 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 009A | 1,531 | 274.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.6% |
| Lancaster 009C | 1,451 | 277.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Lancaster 010A | 1,609 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.8% |
| Lancaster 010B | 1,938 | 205.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 70.6% |
| Lancaster 010C | 1,404 | 266.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 72.9% |
| Lancaster 010D | 1,639 | 108.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Lancaster 020A | 1,415 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 020B | 1,412 | 24.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 020C | 1,318 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Lancaster 020D | 1,408 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.6% |
| Lancaster 020E | 1,454 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Lizzi CollingeLabourMP for Morecambe and Lunesdale
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 Morecambe2
Middle areas in Morecambe6
Towns near Morecambe6
Morecambe in brief
Morecambe is a town in Lancaster, North West.
About 33,114 people lived in Morecambe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £183,000 in 2025 across 506 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 144.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Morecambe was £183,000 in 2025.
Morecambe had 32,745 usual residents at the census.
About 71% of people in Morecambe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Morecambe, 92.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.