Interactive map shows Sussex areas with highest Covid rates

The data relates to the seven-day period leading up to Christmas day, and the weekly Covid rates are expressed as the number of recorded cases per 100,000 population.

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Areas are split into Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) - a geographic hierarchy designed to improve the reporting of small area statistics in England and Wales, with each area having a minimum population of 5,000 and a maximum population of 7,200.

Scroll down for the areas in Sussex, and the areas in Brighton and Hove, with the highest weekly Covid rates.

Many of the MSOA in Sussex with the highest coronavirus rates are in the Hastings area

The map, made using figures from Public Health England, found that ten MSOA in Sussex had a weekly Covid rate of more than 800 new cases per 100,000 population in the week leading up to December 25.

These areas were all in East Sussex, with nine of the ten found in the Bexhill and Hastings areas.

Hastings and Rother were among the first areas to be moved to the newly created Tier 4

These were:

• West St Leonards: 178 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 1,626.5 new cases per 100,000 population
• Hollington: 87 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 1,086.3 new cases per 100,000 population
• Burwash, Sedlescombe and Staplecross: 79 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 978.0 new cases per 100,000 population
• Bexhill North and Sidley: 92 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 951.5 new cases per 100,000 population
• Silverhill: 80 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 904.6 new cases per 100,000 population
• Central Hastings: 63 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 888.7 new cases per 100,000 population
• Old Hastings: 67 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 874.9 new cases per 100,000 population
• Braybrooke and Bohemia: 74 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 862.5 new cases per 100,000 population
• Bexhill Central: 81 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 840.2 new cases per 100,000 population
• Broomgrove: 59 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 800.3 new cases per 100,000 population

There were no MSOA in the Brighton and Hove area with a weekly Covid rate of more than 800 cases per 100,000 population.

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However, there were several parts of the city where the rate exceeded 400 new cases per 100,000 people.

These were:

• Peacehaven West: 60 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 782.8 new cases per 100,000 population
• Peacehaven East: 52 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 664.0 new cases per 100,000 population
• East Saltdean and Telscombe Cliffs: 48 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 609.5 new cases per 100,000 population
• Buckingham: 37 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 506.2 new cases per 100,000 population
• Hillside: 41 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 462.1 new cases per 100,000 population
• Bevendean and Moulsecoomb East: 36 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 447.5 new cases per 100,000 population
• Patcham East: 34 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 432.9 new cases per 100,000 population
• Kingston and Southwick: 46 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 430.7 new cases per 100,000 population
• Preston Park: 37 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 421.9 new cases per 100,000 population

Preston Park in Brighton

• Hove Central: 38 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 417.8 new cases per 100,000 population
• Rottingdean and Saltdean: 42 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 414.4 new cases per 100,000 population
• Whitehawk: 37 cases giving a seven-day rolling rate of 403.5 new cases per 100,000 population