Grays Riverside
WardSouth west Thurrock. About 11,494 people in 2.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Grays Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Grays Riverside compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Grays Riverside safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grays Riverside at a rate of 146.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 100.8 per 1,000 people across Thurrock.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 162 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grays Riverside.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (586), other crime (288) and shoplifting (256).
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 Thurrock
These figures are published for the whole of Thurrock, not for each ward, so they describe all of Thurrock and not Grays Riverside alone. See Thurrock
Grays Riverside in brief
Grays Riverside had 11,215 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Grays Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Grays Riverside, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Grays Riverside, 5.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.