Shrub End
WardCentral Colchester. About 13,107 people in 5.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Shrub End live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shrub End compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shrub End safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shrub End at a rate of 86.8 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, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shrub End.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (505), other crime (207) and vehicle crime (122).
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 Shrub End alone. See Colchester
Shrub End in brief
Shrub End had 12,442 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Shrub End live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shrub End, 89.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Shrub End, 3.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.