Wick
TownTown in Arun, South East.
Wick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wick 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Wick, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Wick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wick at a rate of 88.1 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, 130 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (497), anti-social behaviour (209) and other crime (203).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wick was 99.7 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 Wick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wick has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arun 004A | 1,697 | 174.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.5% |
| Arun 004B | 1,573 | 133.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 64.4% |
| Arun 004C | 1,433 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| Arun 004F | 2,142 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Arun 004G | 2,045 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Arun 004H | 1,560 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.1% |
| Arun 004I | 1,710 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.4% |
| Arun 009F | 1,649 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.8% |
Your MP
- Alison GriffithsConservativeMP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
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 Wick1
Middle areas in Wick1
Towns near Wick6
Wick in brief
Wick is a town in Arun, South East.
About 13,768 people lived in Wick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £295,000 in 2025 across 191 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wick was £295,000 in 2025.
Wick had 13,231 usual residents at the census.
In Wick, 88.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wick, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.