Braintree
TownTown in Braintree, East of England.
Braintree is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Braintree 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 Braintree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Braintree compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Braintree safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Braintree at a rate of 78.7 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, 339 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Braintree.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,559), other crime (617) and anti-social behaviour (401).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Braintree was 80.5 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 Braintree, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Braintree has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Braintree
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree 007A | 1,411 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| Braintree 007B | 1,614 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 007C | 1,558 | 19.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.3% |
| Braintree 007D | 2,039 | 76.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.9% |
| Braintree 007E | 1,493 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.1% |
| Braintree 008A | 1,264 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 008B | 1,539 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.5% |
| Braintree 008C | 2,543 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Braintree 008D | 2,105 | 85.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Braintree 009A | 1,815 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Braintree 009B | 1,765 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Braintree 009D | 2,472 | 165.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.1% |
| Braintree 009E | 1,634 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Braintree 009F | 1,755 | 216.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Braintree 010A | 1,687 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Braintree 010B | 1,639 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 011A | 1,570 | 189.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.3% |
| Braintree 011B | 1,728 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Braintree 011C | 2,121 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Braintree 011E | 1,525 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Braintree 011F | 1,405 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 011G | 1,483 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Braintree 012C | 1,479 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Braintree 012D | 2,818 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Braintree 013B | 1,697 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sir James CleverlyConservativeMP for Braintree
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 Braintree1
Middle areas in Braintree5
Towns near Braintree6
Braintree in brief
Braintree is a town in Braintree, East of England.
About 44,961 people lived in Braintree in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 689 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 78.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Braintree was £300,000 in 2025.
Braintree had 43,179 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Braintree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Braintree, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.