Pilgrims Hatch
WardCentral Brentwood. About 6,395 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Pilgrims Hatch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pilgrims Hatch compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pilgrims Hatch safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pilgrims Hatch at a rate of 90.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 73.4 per 1,000 people across Brentwood.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 56 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pilgrims Hatch.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (187), shoplifting (103) and other crime (86).
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 Brentwood
These figures are published for the whole of Brentwood, not for each ward, so they describe all of Brentwood and not Pilgrims Hatch alone. See Brentwood
Pilgrims Hatch in brief
Pilgrims Hatch had 6,095 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Pilgrims Hatch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pilgrims Hatch, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Pilgrims Hatch, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.