Ely West
WardThe north of the East Cambridgeshire. About 9,791 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 11 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Ely West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ely West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ely West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ely West at a rate of 58.7 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, 43 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ely West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (148), anti-social behaviour (124) and other crime (88).
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 West alone. See East Cambridgeshire
Ely West in brief
Ely West had 9,869 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ely West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ely West, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ely West, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.