Langley Green & Gatwick Airport

Crawley · South East · population 9,198 · 5 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

32Area Score / 100 ?
  • #4,639 of 6,856 in England
  • #945 of 1,119 in South East
  • #9 of 13 in Crawley
  • More deprived (bottom 40%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents8,947
Median age (est.)36
Density766per km²
No qualifications23%
Degree or above25%
No car or van22%

Age

0–14 21%15–24 13%25–44 31%45–64 23%65+ 12%

Tenure

Own outright: 23%Mortgage/shared: 29%Social rent: 28%Private rent: 19%
Own outright 23%Mortgage/shared 29%Social rent 28%Private rent 19%

Households

One person: 22%Couple, no children: 11%Couple with children: 32%Lone parent: 13%Other: 22%
One person 22%Couple, no children 11%Couple with children 32%Lone parent 13%Other 22%

Work (top occupations)

Elementary 17% · Process & plant 13% · Caring & leisure 12%

All occupation groups
Elementary17%
Process & plant13%
Caring & leisure12%
Professional12%
Sales & customer service12%
Associate professional9%
Skilled trades9%
Managers & directors8%
Administrative8%

Ethnic group

White: 56%Asian: 32%Black: 5%Mixed: 4%Other: 3%
White 56%Asian 32%Black 5%Mixed 4%Other 3%

Religion & identity

Christian 35% · No religion 25% · Muslim 23%

Born outside the UK: 37%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Langley Green & Gatwick Airport is in the more-deprived bottom 40% of England, ranked #4,639 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #9 of 13 in Crawley. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Living environment (90) but weak on Education (18). Typical homes here sold for about £349,000 over the past year, up 18% across five years (from 63 sales), in line with the wider Crawley median of £350,000. Typical household take-home income is around £39,324 a year, around the middle of England. Recorded crime ran at 358 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, well above the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 25 · #5,153
Employment 38 · #4,276
Education 18 · #5,626
Health 44 · #3,857
Crime 31 · #4,728
Housing & access 23 · #5,297
Living environment 90 · #718

House prices ?

£349,000median (12m) · -3.7% yr · n=63
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£349,00063-3.7%+18.3%
DetachedToo few sales to report (n=3)
Semi-detached£376,00015-3.6%+13.9%
Terraced£333,75042-2.6%+15.9%
FlatToo few sales to report (n=3)
This area£349,000
Crawley£350,000
South East£385,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£39,324±£5,540 · #3,627 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£31,017
Price-to-income ?8.9×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

36Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
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Recorded crime ?

358 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 3,292 offences
Crawley113
South East71
England83

Rank #6,372 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences964
Theft1,174
Burglary36
Vehicle crime69
Criminal damage & arson133
Public order & weapons754
Drugs83
Robbery15
Other64

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 307 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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