# Brentwood

Town in Brentwood, East of England.

Brentwood is a town in Brentwood, East of England. Median sale price £465,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 79.8 per 1,000 people. About 56,911 people.

Town. Code E63004713. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Brentwood](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood)

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

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £465,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Brentwood was £465,000 in 2025. Joint 103rd most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 55,339** (2021). Brentwood had 55,339 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 190th most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Brentwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 88.2%** (January 2026). In Brentwood, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004713) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in Brentwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004713) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 993 homes were sold in Brentwood in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63004713) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Brentwood.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004713) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Brentwood had 55,339 usual residents at the census.

## How Brentwood compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Brentwood | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £465,000 | 18th most expensive | 130 towns, East of England · 2025 |
| Population | 55,339 | 17th most populated | 130 towns, East of England · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 130 towns, East of England · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 88.2% | 41st lowest | 130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026 |

## Is Brentwood safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brentwood at a rate of 79.8 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, 402 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brentwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,536), other crime (707) and shoplifting (663).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brentwood was 76.4 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 Brentwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brentwood has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods

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

## Neighbourhoods in Brentwood

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Brentwood 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021448) | 1,548 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.8% |
| [Brentwood 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021449) | 1,671 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.0% |
| [Brentwood 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021450) | 1,983 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| [Brentwood 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021451) | 1,546 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.1% |
| [Brentwood 003E](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021452) | 1,483 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.3% |
| [Brentwood 004A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021431) | 1,650 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| [Brentwood 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021432) | 1,865 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.9% |
| [Brentwood 004C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021434) | 1,649 | 41.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.2% |
| [Brentwood 004D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021461) | 1,491 | 113.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.9% |
| [Brentwood 004E](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021464) | 1,583 | 124.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| [Brentwood 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021447) | 2,512 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| [Brentwood 005B](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021453) | 1,263 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| [Brentwood 005C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021455) | 1,383 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 76.7% |
| [Brentwood 005D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021465) | 1,933 | 121.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.5% |
| [Brentwood 005E](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021466) | 1,748 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| [Brentwood 005F](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021467) | 1,779 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.9% |
| [Brentwood 006A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021438) | 2,234 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| [Brentwood 006B](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021462) | 1,411 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| [Brentwood 006C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021463) | 1,607 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.1% |
| [Brentwood 006D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021468) | 2,012 | 104.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 74.4% |
| [Brentwood 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021433) | 2,183 | 300.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.9% |
| [Brentwood 007E](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021475) | 1,556 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.7% |
| [Brentwood 007F](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01033063) | 1,448 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.9% |
| [Brentwood 007G](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01033064) | 1,379 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.7% |
| [Brentwood 007H](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01034358) | 1,178 | 222.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 69.4% |
| [Brentwood 007I](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01034359) | 1,415 | 143.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.0% |
| [Brentwood 007J](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01034360) | 1,438 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.2% |
| [Brentwood 007K](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01034361) | 1,163 | 189.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.4% |
| [Brentwood 008A](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021435) | 1,878 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.4% |
| [Brentwood 008B](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021437) | 1,781 | 63.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| [Brentwood 008C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021472) | 1,799 | 89.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.1% |
| [Brentwood 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021473) | 1,532 | 144.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 49.5% |
| [Brentwood 008E](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021474) | 1,529 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.0% |
| [Brentwood 009C](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021454) | 1,161 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.6% |
| [Brentwood 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/neighbourhood/e01021456) | 1,213 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.3% |

## Your MP

- [Brentwood and Ongar](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/brentwood-and-ongar): Alex Burghart (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Brentwood](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood)

## Postcode districts covering Brentwood

[CM13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cm13), [CM14](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cm14), [CM15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cm15)

## Middle areas in Brentwood

[Brentwood Central](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/brentwood-central), [Brentwood North](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/brentwood-north), [Brentwood South & Warley](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/brentwood-south-and-warley), [Brook Street & Pilgrim's Hatch](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/brook-street-and-pilgrims-hatch), [Hutton](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/hutton), [Shenfield & Hutton Mount](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood/shenfield-and-hutton-mount)

## Towns near Brentwood

[Havering](https://openindex.co.uk/havering), [Billericay](https://openindex.co.uk/town/billericay), [Basildon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/basildon), [Barking and Dagenham](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham), [South Ockendon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/south-ockendon), [Redbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/redbridge)

## Brentwood in brief

Brentwood is a town in Brentwood, East of England.
About 56,911 people lived in Brentwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £465,000 in 2025 across 993 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brentwood was £465,000 in 2025.
Brentwood had 55,339 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Brentwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brentwood, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63004713
- Constituency: [Brentwood and Ongar †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/brentwood-and-ongar)
- Council: [Brentwood †](https://openindex.co.uk/brentwood)
- Region: [East of England](https://openindex.co.uk/east-of-england)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 14.40 km²
- People, mid-2024: 56,911*
- Neighbourhoods: 35
- Output areas: 174

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Havering](https://openindex.co.uk/havering), [Billericay](https://openindex.co.uk/town/billericay), [Basildon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/basildon), [Barking and Dagenham](https://openindex.co.uk/barking-and-dagenham), [South Ockendon](https://openindex.co.uk/town/south-ockendon), [Redbridge](https://openindex.co.uk/redbridge)

## Latest updates for Brentwood

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004713

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/brentwood