The Lawns
WardCentral Chelmsford. About 5,648 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in The Lawns live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How The Lawns compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is The Lawns safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in The Lawns at a rate of 33.8 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, 5 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in The Lawns.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (74), other crime (34) and anti-social behaviour (25).
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 The Lawns alone. See Chelmsford
The Lawns in brief
The Lawns had 5,435 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in The Lawns live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In The Lawns, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In The Lawns, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.