Neighbourhoods in Mid Sussex
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17 neighbourhoods · 92 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Burgess Hill Central | £1,195 | +3.3% | 56 | 38 |
| Haywards Heath West | £1,204 | +3.3% | 75 | 73 |
| East Grinstead Central & North | £1,226 | +3.3% | 64 | 68 |
| Burgess Hill West | £1,261 | +3.3% | 77 | 85 |
| Haywards Heath East | £1,262 | +3.3% | 67 | 76 |
| Burgess Hill East | £1,269 | +3.3% | 70 | 82 |
| East Grinstead East | £1,379 | +3.3% | 60 | 97 |
| Copthorne & Turners Hill | £1,404 | +3.3% | 15 | 81 |
| Burgess Hill South | £1,414 | +3.3% | 78 | 88 |
| Crawley Down | £1,427 | +3.3% | 35 | 85 |
| East Grinstead West & South | £1,456 | +3.3% | 22 | 84 |
| Haywards Heath South & Cuckfield | £1,481 | +3.3% | 27 | 79 |
| Horsted Keynes, Ardingly & Sharpthorne | £1,519 | +3.3% | 16 | 91 |
| Hassocks, Keymer & East Hurstpierpoint | £1,552 | +3.3% | 66 | 94 |
| Haywards Heath North East | £1,556 | +3.3% | 73 | 97 |
| Hurstpierpoint & Bolney | £1,602 | +3.3% | 1 | 51 |
| Balcombe & Handcross | £1,606 | +3.3% | 3 | 87 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Mid Sussex
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Mid Sussex. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Mid Sussex median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Mid Sussex.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Mid Sussex
Crime in Mid Sussex runs at 2.1× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#60 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 47.8, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Mid Sussex
100% of schools serving Mid Sussex are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Mid Sussex
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Mid Sussex
Mid Sussex has 0.39 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Mid Sussex
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Mid Sussex?
- The median monthly rent across Mid Sussex is £1,405, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Mid Sussex?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Mid Sussex by estimated median rent is Burgess Hill Central at approximately £1,195/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Mid Sussex?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Mid Sussex is Burgess Hill South at 78/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Mid Sussex a safe area?
- Mid Sussex has an average safety score of 74/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Mid Sussex?
- The most common council tax band in Mid Sussex is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £302. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Mid Sussex.
- What is the average salary in Mid Sussex?
- The median annual resident salary in Mid Sussex is £37,705, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Mid Sussex, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Mid Sussex?
- The average property price in Mid Sussex is approximately £438,029 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Mid Sussex?
- Gross rental yield in Mid Sussex is approximately 3.4% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Mid Sussex?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 6.0 years in Mid Sussex. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Mid Sussex?
- 100% of premises in Mid Sussex are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Mid Sussex?
- 2.1% of 16-64 residents in Mid Sussex are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Mid Sussex?
- Mid Sussex contains 17 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 92 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Mid Sussex
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
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