Shanklin
TownTown in Isle of Wight, South East.
Shanklin is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shanklin 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 97% of people in Shanklin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shanklin compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shanklin safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shanklin at a rate of 92.6 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, 85 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shanklin.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (375), other crime (169) and anti-social behaviour (95).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shanklin was 84.7 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 Shanklin, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shanklin has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shanklin
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Wight 015E | 1,564 | 102.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.8% |
| Isle of Wight 015F | 1,293 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Isle of Wight 016C | 1,541 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.8% |
| Isle of Wight 016D | 1,470 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Isle of Wight 016E | 1,508 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.2% |
| Isle of Wight 016F | 1,747 | 157.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.8% |
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 Shanklin1
Middle areas in Shanklin1
Towns near Shanklin6
Shanklin in brief
Shanklin is a town in Isle of Wight, South East.
About 9,083 people lived in Shanklin in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,500 in 2025 across 133 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shanklin was £257,500 in 2025.
Shanklin had 9,112 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Shanklin live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shanklin, 90.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.