Sandown
TownTown in Isle of Wight, South East.
Sandown is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sandown 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 81% of people in Sandown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sandown compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sandown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sandown at a rate of 118.1 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, 139 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sandown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (491), anti-social behaviour (239) and shoplifting (217).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sandown was 117.4 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 Sandown, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sandown has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sandown
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight 014B | 1,770 | 158.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Isle of Wight 014C | 1,418 | 131.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.8% |
| Isle of Wight 014D | 2,104 | 204.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.0% |
| Isle of Wight 014E | 1,835 | 71.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Isle of Wight 015A | 1,451 | 129.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Isle of Wight 015B | 1,079 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| Isle of Wight 016A | 1,172 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| Isle of Wight 016B | 1,276 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 73.5% |
Your MP
- Joe RobertsonConservativeMP for Isle of Wight East
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 Sandown1
Middle areas in Sandown1
Towns near Sandown6
Sandown in brief
Sandown is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.
About 11,838 people lived in Sandown in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £244,000 in 2025 across 178 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 118.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sandown was £244,000 in 2025.
Sandown had 11,652 usual residents at the census.
About 81% of people in Sandown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sandown, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.