West St Leonards
WardSouth west Hastings. About 5,059 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in West St Leonards live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How West St Leonards compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is West St Leonards safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in West St Leonards at a rate of 122.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 146.8 per 1,000 people across Hastings.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in West St Leonards.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (238), anti-social behaviour (135) and other crime (109).
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.
Figures for the whole of Hastings
These figures are published for the whole of Hastings, not for each ward, so they describe all of Hastings and not West St Leonards alone. See Hastings
West St Leonards in brief
West St Leonards had 4,933 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in West St Leonards live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In West St Leonards, 78.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In West St Leonards, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.