Shoreham-by-Sea
TownTown in Adur, South East.
Shoreham-by-Sea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shoreham-by-Sea 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 Shoreham-by-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shoreham-by-Sea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shoreham-by-Sea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shoreham-by-Sea at a rate of 68.6 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, 133 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shoreham-by-Sea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (461), anti-social behaviour (430) and shoplifting (249).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Shoreham-by-Sea was 72.6 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 Shoreham-by-Sea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shoreham-by-Sea has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shoreham-by-Sea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adur 001E | 1,522 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Adur 002A | 1,295 | 11.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
| Adur 002B | 1,194 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Adur 002C | 1,535 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| Adur 002D | 1,944 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.7% |
| Adur 002E | 1,394 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Adur 004C | 1,421 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Adur 004D | 1,274 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Adur 004E | 1,470 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.4% |
| Adur 004F | 1,440 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.5% |
| Adur 005A | 2,423 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.3% |
| Adur 005B | 2,239 | 66.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.0% |
| Adur 005C | 1,871 | 315.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.8% |
| Adur 005D | 1,477 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.9% |
| Adur 005E | 1,251 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.8% |
Your MP
- Tom RutlandLabourMP for East Worthing and Shoreham
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 Shoreham-by-Sea1
Middle areas in Shoreham-by-Sea3
Towns near Shoreham-by-Sea6
Shoreham-by-Sea in brief
Shoreham-by-Sea is a town in Adur, South East.
About 23,690 people lived in Shoreham-by-Sea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £400,000 in 2025 across 321 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Shoreham-by-Sea was £400,000 in 2025.
Shoreham-by-Sea had 23,659 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Shoreham-by-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shoreham-by-Sea, 94.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.