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Bexhill Sackville ward, Rother

Bexhill Sackville is one of 21 electoral wards of Rother District Council, in East Sussex (South East). At the 2021 Census it had 4,898 residents in 2,646 households — 4,126 people per km², the 9th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Bexhill and Battle constituency; for county elections it is in the Bexhill East and Bexhill South divisions.

Residents, 20214,898council ward average 4,434
Households2,6461.85 residents per household
Density4,126/ km²about 1.19 km² · Rother 183
Aged 65+41.9%Rother: 32.4% · under 16: 11.0%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–43.4% · 168
5–93.7% · 180
10–153.9% · 191
16–192.2% · 107
20–243.7% · 180
25–348.4% · 413
35–4912.7% · 622
50–6420.1% · 986
65–7417.9% · 878
75–8414.9% · 728
85+9.1% · 445

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van30.1% · 797
1 car or van50.1% · 1,326
2 cars or vans15.8% · 418
3 or more4.0% · 105
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Rother overall: 72.7% owned, 10.2% social rented, 16.2% private rented.

Owned outright50.3% · 1,330
With mortgage17.3% · 458
Shared ownership0.6% · 15
Social rented3.6% · 96
Private rented28.2% · 746
Lives rent free0.0% · 1

Type of home

Detached house15.4% · 407
Semi-detached house10.3% · 273
Terraced house9.0% · 239
Purpose-built flat38.4% · 1,016
Converted house21.0% · 557
Other conversion3.7% · 97
Above shop / office1.9% · 50
Caravan, mobile0.3% · 9
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0Census figures for this ward as published on 2022 ward boundaries, which still apply.