Southwick
TownTown in Adur, South East.
Southwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Southwick 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 Southwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southwick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southwick at a rate of 82.9 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, 126 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southwick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (359), anti-social behaviour (245) and other crime (169).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Southwick was 78.9 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 Southwick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Southwick has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Southwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adur 001A | 1,399 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Adur 001B | 1,319 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Adur 001C | 1,621 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Adur 001D | 1,540 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Adur 001F | 1,694 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.5% |
| Adur 004A | 1,688 | 123.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.3% |
| Adur 004B | 1,758 | 95.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Adur 004G | 1,487 | 164.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.8% |
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 Southwick2
Middle areas in Southwick1
Towns near Southwick6
Southwick in brief
Southwick is a town in Adur, South East.
About 12,201 people lived in Southwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 173 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Southwick was £435,000 in 2025.
Southwick had 12,242 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Southwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southwick, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.