Rural North
WardNorth west Colchester. About 11,081 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 99 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 2% of people in Rural North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rural North compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rural North safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rural North at a rate of 40.2 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 Rural North.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (218), other crime (92) and criminal damage and arson (45).
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 Rural North alone. See Colchester
Rural North in brief
Rural North had 10,817 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in Rural North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rural North, 87.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rural North, 1.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.