Selsey
TownTown in Chichester, South East.
Selsey is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Selsey 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 0% of people in Selsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Selsey compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Selsey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Selsey at a rate of 75.3 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, 137 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Selsey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (279), anti-social behaviour (233) and other crime (132).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Selsey was 64.7 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 Selsey, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Selsey has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 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 Selsey
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chichester 014A | 2,014 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 79.0% |
| Chichester 014B | 1,658 | 131.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 57.1% |
| Chichester 014C | 1,740 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.2% |
| Chichester 014D | 1,337 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.1% |
| Chichester 014E | 1,254 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| Chichester 014F | 1,450 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.4% |
| Chichester 014G | 1,469 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 68.3% |
Your MP
- Jess Brown-FullerLiberal DemocratMP for Chichester
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 Selsey1
Middle areas in Selsey1
Towns near Selsey6
Selsey in brief
Selsey is a town in Chichester, South East.
About 10,774 people lived in Selsey in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 196 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Selsey was £350,000 in 2025.
Selsey had 10,740 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Selsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Selsey, 81.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.