Berechurch
TownTown in Colchester, East of England.
Berechurch is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Berechurch 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 0% of people in Berechurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Berechurch compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Berechurch safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Berechurch at a rate of 92.1 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, 47 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Berechurch.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (357), other crime (117) and anti-social behaviour (94).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Berechurch was 89.6 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 Berechurch, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Berechurch has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Berechurch
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colchester 016B | 1,088 | 130.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.3% |
| Colchester 018B | 2,023 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.2% |
| Colchester 018C | 2,339 | 66.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.2% |
| Colchester 018D | 1,216 | 55.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Colchester 018E | 1,529 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.8% |
Your MP
- Pam CoxLabourMP for Colchester
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 Berechurch1
Middle areas in Berechurch1
Towns near Berechurch6
Berechurch in brief
Berechurch is a town in Colchester, East of England.
About 7,782 people lived in Berechurch in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £285,000 in 2025 across 116 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Berechurch was £285,000 in 2025.
Berechurch had 7,702 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Berechurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Berechurch, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.