BN11 crime rate and statistics

The BN11 postcode district, in the BN (Brighton) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 5,563 street-crime records for BN11 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 18.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 161.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 99.4 for Sussex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

5,563

Latest month (August 2026)

652

Year-on-year

+18.6%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 431
October 2025 381
November 2025 439
December 2025 411
January 2026 388
February 2026 415
March 2026 476
April 2026 442
May 2026 512
June 2026 493
July 2026 523
August 2026 652

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

BN11

161.5

Sussex Police

99.4

5,563 records and 34,454 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of BN11 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in BN11

Published street-crime records in BN11, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of BN11: the west 1,186, the south-west 997, the east 819, the north-west 793, the north-east 704, the centre 693, the south-east 611, the south 317, the north 304.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of BN11's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BN11's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of BN11 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BN11 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for BN11 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 4,584
2022 5,133
2023 5,160
2024 4,796
2025 4,810
2026 (part year) 3,901

Is BN11 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BN11 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BN11 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

BN11's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Sussex Police (99.9%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Warwickshire Police (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in BN11

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
BN11 1 1,694
BN11 2 1,030
BN11 3 1,662
BN11 4 902
BN11 5 275

Council area

BN11 is in the Worthing council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 34,454 Census 2021 residents of BN11.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 5.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 16.4% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About BN11 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £266,000 (272)
2025 £275,000 (644)
2024 £285,000 (587)
2023 £290,000 (645)
2022 £268,124 (754)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £642,500 (22) £502,500 (29) £372,500 (48) £208,000 (173)
2025 £645,000 (43) £454,500 (64) £360,000 (134) £220,000 (403)
2024 £682,500 (46) £450,000 (69) £361,500 (96) £220,000 (376)
2023 £678,500 (31) £450,000 (59) £380,000 (118) £240,000 (437)
2022 £635,000 (39) £485,500 (55) £365,000 (135) £230,000 (525)

Schools and colleges

10 open establishments with a postcode in BN11, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 10 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Elm Grove Primary School, Worthing Primary Community school
Heene CofE Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Homefield Primary School and SSC Primary Community school
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Davison Church of England High School for Girls, Worthing Secondary Voluntary controlled school
Brighton Forward Ltd – Special post 16 institution
Educate U – Other independent school
Our Lady of Sion School – Other independent school
Red Balloon Worthing Learner Centre – Other independent special school
Seadown School – Other independent special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High100
Medium1
Low32
Very low7

Broadband

Share of the 961 postcodes in BN11 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit90.8%98.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)99.1%100.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. BN11 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/bn11/

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