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Billericay

Town

Town in Basildon, East of England.

Billericay is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Billericay 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 Billericay live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£487,000
86th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
34,068
324th 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
90.6%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Billericay compares

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

BillericayMiddle
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. Billericay is £487,000.
£487,00014th most expensive
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. Billericay is 34,068.
34,06834th 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%. Billericay 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%. Billericay is 90.6%.
90.6%joint 49th lowest

Is Billericay safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Billericay at a rate of 46.6 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, 116 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Billericay.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (604), other crime (270) and shoplifting (218).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Billericay was 40.3 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 Billericay, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Billericay has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 14 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Billericay

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Basildon 001A1,36722.0 per 1,0001055.7%
Basildon 001B1,36716.8 per 1,0001097.7%
Basildon 001C1,25230.6 per 1,000991.0%
Basildon 001D1,55334.6 per 1,0001090.9%
Basildon 001E1,57614.0 per 1,0001096.8%
Basildon 002A1,45681.1 per 1,000394.2%
Basildon 002B1,45240.0 per 1,0001085.3%
Basildon 002C1,50844.9 per 1,0001097.3%
Basildon 002D1,54723.5 per 1,0001098.3%
Basildon 002E1,38126.0 per 1,000986.4%
Basildon 003A1,45015.4 per 1,0001099.1%
Basildon 003B1,76962.2 per 1,000868.7%
Basildon 003C1,71450.3 per 1,000598.7%
Basildon 003D1,66926.3 per 1,0001098.8%
Basildon 003E1,499155.9 per 1,0001091.4%
Basildon 004A1,54592.1 per 1,0001086.5%
Basildon 004B1,76949.6 per 1,0001093.0%
Basildon 004C1,53773.2 per 1,0001090.7%
Basildon 004D1,5018.6 per 1,0001099.2%
Basildon 004E1,71266.4 per 1,000592.7%
Basildon 009B1,57140.7 per 1,000991.4%
Basildon 009C1,55038.6 per 1,000899.1%

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.

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Postcode districts covering Billericay2

Middle areas in Billericay4

Towns near Billericay6

Billericay in brief

Billericay is a town in Basildon, East of England.

About 34,221 people lived in Billericay in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £487,000 in 2025 across 597 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 46.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Billericay was £487,000 in 2025.

Billericay had 34,068 usual residents at the census.

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

In Billericay, 90.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.