Marks Tey and Layer
WardSouth west Colchester. About 11,644 people in 81 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Marks Tey and Layer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Marks Tey and Layer compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Marks Tey and Layer safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Marks Tey and Layer at a rate of 68.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 94.4 per 1,000 people across Colchester.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Marks Tey and Layer.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (261), other crime (131) and anti-social behaviour (105).
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 Colchester
These figures are published for the whole of Colchester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Colchester and not Marks Tey and Layer alone. See Colchester
Marks Tey and Layer in brief
Marks Tey and Layer had 11,149 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Marks Tey and Layer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Marks Tey and Layer, 82.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Marks Tey and Layer, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.