Patching Hall
WardNorth west Chelmsford. About 9,236 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Patching Hall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Patching Hall compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Patching Hall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Patching Hall at a rate of 73.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across Chelmsford.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Patching Hall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (312), other crime (105) and anti-social behaviour (71).
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 Chelmsford
These figures are published for the whole of Chelmsford, not for each ward, so they describe all of Chelmsford and not Patching Hall alone. See Chelmsford
Patching Hall in brief
Patching Hall had 9,074 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Patching Hall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Patching Hall, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Patching Hall, 3.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.