Wickford North
WardNorth east Basildon. About 13,506 people in 4.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Wickford North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wickford North compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wickford North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wickford North at a rate of 61.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 98.3 per 1,000 people across Basildon.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 73 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wickford North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (332), other crime (138) and anti-social behaviour (136).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Basildon
These figures are published for the whole of Basildon, not for each ward, so they describe all of Basildon and not Wickford North alone. See Basildon
Wickford North in brief
Wickford North had 13,332 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wickford North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wickford North, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wickford North, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.