Peacehaven
TownTown in Lewes, South East.
Peacehaven is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Peacehaven 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 Peacehaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Peacehaven compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Peacehaven safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Peacehaven at a rate of 74.6 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, 124 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Peacehaven.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (429), anti-social behaviour (321) and other crime (203).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Peacehaven was 69.3 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 Peacehaven, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Peacehaven has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Peacehaven
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewes 007A | 1,518 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Lewes 007B | 1,680 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.7% |
| Lewes 007C | 1,772 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.7% |
| Lewes 007D | 1,164 | 140.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 63.5% |
| Lewes 007E | 1,525 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.8% |
| Lewes 010A | 1,980 | 82.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Lewes 010B | 1,751 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.3% |
| Lewes 010C | 2,326 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Lewes 010D | 1,719 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.8% |
Your MP
- Chris WardLabourMP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
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 Peacehaven1
Middle areas in Peacehaven2
Towns near Peacehaven6
Peacehaven in brief
Peacehaven is a town in Lewes, South East.
About 16,429 people lived in Peacehaven in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £342,000 in 2025 across 295 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Peacehaven was £342,000 in 2025.
Peacehaven had 15,705 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Peacehaven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Peacehaven, 89.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.