Rustington
TownTown in Arun, South East.
Rustington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rustington 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 Rustington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rustington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rustington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rustington at a rate of 56.0 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, 199 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rustington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (567), anti-social behaviour (462) and shoplifting (284).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rustington was 52.3 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 Rustington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rustington has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 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 Rustington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arun 002A | 1,507 | 94.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.2% |
| Arun 002B | 1,566 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.1% |
| Arun 005B | 2,157 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 66.3% |
| Arun 005C | 1,502 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| Arun 005D | 1,589 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.6% |
| Arun 005E | 1,877 | 207.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.9% |
| Arun 005F | 2,176 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.8% |
| Arun 005G | 1,668 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.7% |
| Arun 007D | 1,532 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Arun 007E | 1,641 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.0% |
| Arun 007F | 1,692 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.1% |
| Arun 008A | 1,395 | 14.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Arun 008B | 1,553 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 77.2% |
| Arun 008C | 1,871 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.3% |
| Arun 008D | 1,430 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.8% |
| Arun 009E | 1,753 | 23.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.4% |
| Arun 010A | 1,349 | 16.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.1% |
| Arun 010B | 1,396 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.7% |
| Arun 010C | 1,689 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 56.1% |
| Arun 010D | 1,798 | 16.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 68.7% |
| Arun 010E | 1,724 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 49.5% |
Your MP
- Dr Beccy CooperLabourMP for Worthing 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 Rustington2
Middle areas in Rustington4
Towns near Rustington6
Rustington in brief
Rustington is a town in Arun, South East.
About 34,403 people lived in Rustington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £420,500 in 2025 across 794 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rustington was £420,500 in 2025.
Rustington had 33,885 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Rustington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rustington, 82.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.