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Lewes

99,905 people · median £372,300

Lewes Council · Green / Labour coalition   26/41 seats · 63% · OCD 2026
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How safe is it? This district

Crime runs at 7.4 per 1,000 residents a month — below the 9.3 average across districts AcreRight covers. Like most places with a retail centre, offences cluster where the shops are, not where people live.

Crime rate

Per 1,000 / month7.4
Average across AcreRight-covered districts9.3
Street-level counts · police.uk, last 12 months

By category, 12 months district

Violence & sexual offences
251
Anti-social behaviour
193
Criminal damage & arson
70
Public order
64
Other theft
39
Shoplifting
37
Recorded crimes by category across the whole district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

police.uk publishes anonymised "on or near" points, not named hotspots. The map above shows where they cluster, with the crime layer on.

Clusters of anonymised on-or-near markers, not addresses · police.uk
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