Skegness
TownTown in East Lindsey, East Midlands.
Skegness is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Skegness 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 Skegness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Skegness compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Skegness safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Skegness at a rate of 214.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 477 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Skegness.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,585), anti-social behaviour (861) and other crime (743).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Skegness was 207.5 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 Skegness, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Skegness has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Skegness
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Lindsey 012A | 1,585 | 137.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| East Lindsey 012C | 1,696 | 92.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.3% |
| East Lindsey 012D | 1,687 | 165.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| East Lindsey 012E | 1,238 | 105.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.3% |
| East Lindsey 012F | 1,652 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| East Lindsey 014A | 1,461 | 347.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| East Lindsey 014B | 1,812 | 598.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.0% |
| East Lindsey 014C | 1,340 | 190.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| East Lindsey 014D | 1,630 | 298.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.0% |
| East Lindsey 015A | 1,767 | 314.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| East Lindsey 015B | 2,258 | 142.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.1% |
| East Lindsey 015C | 1,506 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.3% |
| East Lindsey 015D | 1,495 | 274.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.7% |
Your MP
- Richard TiceReform UKMP for Boston and Skegness
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 Skegness1
Middle areas in Skegness3
Towns near Skegness3
Skegness in brief
Skegness is a town in East Lindsey, East Midlands.
About 21,117 people lived in Skegness in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £181,000 in 2025 across 256 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 214.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Skegness was £181,000 in 2025.
Skegness had 20,701 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Skegness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Skegness, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.