Southwater
TownTown in Horsham, South East.
Southwater is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Southwater 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 Southwater live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southwater compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southwater safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southwater at a rate of 35.4 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, 33 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southwater.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (138), anti-social behaviour (119) and other crime (62).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Southwater was 31.7 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 Southwater, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Southwater has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 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 Southwater
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsham 008E | 2,049 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 49.8% |
| Horsham 009A | 1,605 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.8% |
| Horsham 009B | 1,909 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Horsham 009C | 1,521 | 14.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Horsham 009D | 1,762 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Horsham 009E | 1,113 | 10.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Horsham 009F | 1,453 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.4% |
Your MP
- John MilneLiberal DemocratMP for Horsham
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 Southwater1
Middle areas in Southwater1
Towns near Southwater6
Southwater in brief
Southwater is a town in Horsham, South East.
About 11,516 people lived in Southwater in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £430,000 in 2025 across 143 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 35.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Southwater was £430,000 in 2025.
Southwater had 11,204 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Southwater live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southwater, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.