Hastings

What is it like to live in Hastings?

Homes sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,404 of the 1,950 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,779 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 141 of its 2,032 postcodes. It has 18 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hastings, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Hastings?

Homes in Hastings sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,035 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £276,000 from 1,355 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £398,500 220 sales
• Semi-detached £315,000 225 sales
• Terraced £262,250 288 sales
• Flat or maisonette £170,000 302 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole TN34 district, Hastings's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hastings: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Hastings?

76 of the 2,032 postcodes now in use in Hastings came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 6 of the 1,355 homes sold in Hastings were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN34 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Hastings?

Ofcom reports on 1,950 of the 2,032 postcodes in Hastings. At 1,404 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Hastings at risk of flooding?

141 of the 2,032 postcodes in Hastings have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,779 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Hastings?

The open schools at the postcodes in Hastings (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Hastings?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hastings is Hastings Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

• Hastings Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
• St Leonards Warrior Square Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Ore Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Hastings?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Hastings, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Sedlescombe House Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01424 720574 850 mWalk
• The Station Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report August 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01424 464756 1.3 kmCycle
• High Glades Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01424 754678 1.7 kmCycle
• Priory Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01424 430800 1.7 kmCycle
• Hastings Old Town Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01424 452800 2.3 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Hastings safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 6,581 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Hastings over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 179, other crime 100, robbery 91, possession of weapons 90, bicycle theft 42, theft from the person 28.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Hastings?

Councils

Hastings (2,008) and Rother (24)

County council

East Sussex

Parliamentary constituencies

Hastings and Rye (2,008) and Bexhill and Battle (24)

Police force area

Sussex

Region

South East

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.