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Basildon

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Town in Basildon, East of England.

Basildon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Basildon 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Basildon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£330,000
Joint 330th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
115,935
91st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
93.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Basildon compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BasildonMiddle
Median sale price130 towns, East of England · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East of England130 areas from £146,000 to £1,082,500. The middle area is £346,125. Basildon is £330,000.
£330,000joint 55th cheapest
Population130 towns, East of England · 2021
Population: every town in East of England130 areas from 7,522 to 233,524. The middle area is 19,408. Basildon is 115,935.
115,9359th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares130 towns, East of England · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East of England130 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 0.0%. Basildon is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East of England130 areas from 45.6% to 98.3%. The middle area is 92.4%. Basildon is 93.0%.
93.0%joint 59th highest

Is Basildon safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Basildon at a rate of 120.9 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, 1,363 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Basildon.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (6,082), other crime (2,430) and anti-social behaviour (1,629).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Basildon was 121.2 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 Basildon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Basildon has no single figure. Of its 68 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 17 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 13 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 11 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Basildon

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Basildon 010A1,70463.3 per 1,000688.7%
Basildon 010B1,56274.2 per 1,000588.5%
Basildon 010C1,88343.6 per 1,000676.5%
Basildon 010D1,92281.3 per 1,000496.6%
Basildon 010E1,664164.0 per 1,000292.4%
Basildon 011A1,546104.8 per 1,000297.6%
Basildon 011B1,39047.7 per 1,000396.2%
Basildon 011C1,389183.6 per 1,000374.4%
Basildon 011D1,23938.3 per 1,000695.7%
Basildon 011E1,358134.9 per 1,000488.9%
Basildon 012A1,78873.4 per 1,000499.7%
Basildon 012B1,995207.0 per 1,000393.3%
Basildon 012C2,132161.5 per 1,000499.9%
Basildon 012D2,22573.5 per 1,000397.7%
Basildon 012E1,650105.8 per 1,000496.2%
Basildon 013A1,870280.6 per 1,000198.3%
Basildon 013B1,679280.8 per 1,000198.6%
Basildon 013C1,449125.2 per 1,000198.6%
Basildon 013D1,44963.4 per 1,000299.0%
Basildon 013E1,461174.4 per 1,000198.2%
Basildon 014A1,91476.8 per 1,000393.6%
Basildon 014B1,65942.9 per 1,000795.4%
Basildon 014C1,51564.7 per 1,000498.6%
Basildon 014D1,413104.6 per 1,000487.9%
Basildon 014F1,89120.5 per 1,000889.3%
Basildon 014G1,676116.4 per 1,000289.8%
Basildon 015A1,78489.7 per 1,000399.2%
Basildon 015B1,686368.4 per 1,000295.2%
Basildon 015C2,703468.9 per 1,000285.6%
Basildon 015D1,72894.6 per 1,000296.6%
Basildon 015E1,70959.3 per 1,000399.3%
Basildon 016A2,104120.8 per 1,000296.1%
Basildon 016B1,763116.7 per 1,000185.7%
Basildon 016C1,94880.7 per 1,000396.1%
Basildon 016D1,880109.0 per 1,000198.7%
Basildon 016E2,189107.8 per 1,000498.8%
Basildon 017A1,59248.8 per 1,0005100.0%
Basildon 017B1,73453.3 per 1,000399.2%
Basildon 017C1,84956.6 per 1,000399.7%
Basildon 017D1,58033.0 per 1,0005100.0%
Basildon 017E2,405108.0 per 1,000394.2%
Basildon 018A1,46638.3 per 1,000679.1%
Basildon 018B1,43489.5 per 1,000290.8%
Basildon 018C1,56079.7 per 1,000298.4%
Basildon 018D1,720432.9 per 1,000280.6%
Basildon 018E1,649153.5 per 1,000299.0%
Basildon 019A1,628136.3 per 1,000294.1%
Basildon 019B1,819111.6 per 1,000196.2%
Basildon 019C1,788102.5 per 1,000191.4%
Basildon 019D1,640155.6 per 1,000192.7%
Basildon 019E1,742102.0 per 1,000293.2%
Basildon 020A1,74749.7 per 1,000898.8%
Basildon 020B1,66684.3 per 1,000499.3%
Basildon 020D2,227338.8 per 1,000688.0%
Basildon 020E1,54765.6 per 1,000890.0%
Basildon 020F1,48775.8 per 1,000899.8%
Basildon 020G1,641100.3 per 1,000497.9%
Basildon 021A1,47527.4 per 1,000993.0%
Basildon 021B1,46544.7 per 1,000981.0%
Basildon 021C1,55669.8 per 1,000975.4%
Basildon 021D1,58870.0 per 1,000218.8%
Basildon 021E1,54049.8 per 1,0001085.7%
Basildon 021F1,41928.7 per 1,0001090.7%
Basildon 022A2,13778.0 per 1,000295.9%
Basildon 022B1,339225.4 per 1,000495.0%
Basildon 022C1,409136.6 per 1,000295.5%
Basildon 022D1,870103.0 per 1,000398.9%
Basildon 022E1,54355.5 per 1,000399.2%

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Council1

Postcode districts covering Basildon4

Middle areas in Basildon13

Towns near Basildon6

Basildon in brief

Basildon is a town in Basildon, East of England.

About 121,000 people lived in Basildon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 1,428 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 120.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Basildon was £330,000 in 2025.

Basildon had 115,935 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Basildon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Basildon, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.