Tarring
WardSouth west Worthing. About 8,700 people in 1.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Tarring live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tarring compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tarring safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tarring at a rate of 98.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 101.6 per 1,000 people across Worthing.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tarring.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (296), violence and sexual offences (176) and anti-social behaviour (134).
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 Worthing
These figures are published for the whole of Worthing, not for each ward, so they describe all of Worthing and not Tarring alone. See Worthing
Tarring in brief
Tarring had 8,466 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Tarring live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tarring, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Tarring, 2.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.