Aveley
TownTown in Thurrock, East of England.
Aveley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Aveley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 80% of people in Aveley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Aveley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Aveley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Aveley at a rate of 78.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 73 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Aveley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (302), other crime (114) and anti-social behaviour (109).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Aveley was 88.7 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Aveley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Aveley has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Aveley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurrock 008A | 1,596 | 55.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Thurrock 008B | 2,360 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Thurrock 008C | 1,631 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Thurrock 008D | 1,788 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Thurrock 008E | 2,142 | 110.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.8% |
Your MP
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Aveley1
Middle areas in Aveley1
Towns near Aveley6
Aveley in brief
Aveley is a town in Thurrock, East of England.
About 9,563 people lived in Aveley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £379,500 in 2025 across 126 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 78.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Aveley was £379,500 in 2025.
Aveley had 9,364 usual residents at the census.
About 80% of people in Aveley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Aveley, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.