Polegate
TownTown in Wealden, South East.
Polegate is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Polegate 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 70% of people in Polegate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Polegate compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Polegate safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Polegate at a rate of 60.6 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, 62 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Polegate.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (170), anti-social behaviour (142) and shoplifting (100).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Polegate was 77.4 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 Polegate, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Polegate has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Polegate
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealden 019B | 1,848 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Wealden 019C | 1,755 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.4% |
| Wealden 019D | 1,336 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
| Wealden 019E | 1,135 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| Wealden 019F | 1,353 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Wealden 019G | 1,911 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- James MacClearyLiberal DemocratMP for Lewes
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 Polegate1
Middle areas in Polegate1
Towns near Polegate6
Polegate in brief
Polegate is a town in Wealden, South East.
About 10,175 people lived in Polegate in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £305,000 in 2025 across 159 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 60.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Polegate was £305,000 in 2025.
Polegate had 10,067 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Polegate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Polegate, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.