South Hayling
TownTown in Havant, South East.
South Hayling is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for South Hayling 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 72% of people in South Hayling live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How South Hayling compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is South Hayling safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in South Hayling at a rate of 68.2 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, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in South Hayling.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (504), other crime (205) and anti-social behaviour (126).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in South Hayling was 69.6 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 South Hayling, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so South Hayling has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in South Hayling
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havant 015A | 1,302 | 102.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.7% |
| Havant 015B | 1,367 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| Havant 015D | 2,010 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.9% |
| Havant 016A | 1,548 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.1% |
| Havant 016B | 1,468 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.3% |
| Havant 016C | 2,243 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.1% |
| Havant 017A | 1,475 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 69.0% |
| Havant 017B | 1,726 | 80.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.5% |
| Havant 017C | 1,532 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 74.1% |
| Havant 017D | 1,452 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.1% |
Your MP
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 South Hayling1
Middle areas in South Hayling3
Towns near South Hayling6
South Hayling in brief
South Hayling is a town in Havant, South East.
About 15,389 people lived in South Hayling in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £335,000 in 2025 across 255 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in South Hayling was £335,000 in 2025.
South Hayling had 15,305 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in South Hayling live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In South Hayling, 82.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.