Ely East
WardThe north of the East Cambridgeshire. About 6,031 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 16 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Ely East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ely East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ely East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ely East at a rate of 149.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 59.3 per 1,000 people across East Cambridgeshire.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 88 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ely East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (222), anti-social behaviour (215) and shoplifting (157).
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 East Cambridgeshire
These figures are published for the whole of East Cambridgeshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of East Cambridgeshire and not Ely East alone. See East Cambridgeshire
Ely East in brief
Ely East had 5,855 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ely East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ely East, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ely East, 3.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.