Crime in TN38
How much crime is recorded in TN38, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Council
- Hastings
- Region
- South East
- Population
- 40,566 (2024)
TN38Postcode district · St. Leonards-on-Sea
How safe is TN38
Higher-harm crime — violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences — runs at 34.6 offences per 1,000 people a year in TN38, broadly in line with the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 7 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Offences per 1,000 people a year, at-risk population (residents plus people who work here; households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
It has fallen 16% since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates cover September 2025 to August 2026, the latest twelve months published.