Brightlingsea
TownTown in Tendring, East of England.
Brightlingsea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brightlingsea 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 Brightlingsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brightlingsea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brightlingsea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brightlingsea at a rate of 46.8 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, 35 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brightlingsea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (219), other crime (69) and anti-social behaviour (32).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brightlingsea was 53.4 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 Brightlingsea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brightlingsea has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brightlingsea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tendring 009B | 1,478 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 45.8% |
| Tendring 011A | 1,504 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 79.8% |
| Tendring 011B | 1,684 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 20.7% |
| Tendring 011C | 1,957 | 23.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 61.6% |
| Tendring 011D | 2,057 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 57.5% |
Your MP
- Sir Bernard JenkinConservativeMP for Harwich and North Essex
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 Brightlingsea1
Middle areas in Brightlingsea1
Towns near Brightlingsea6
Brightlingsea in brief
Brightlingsea is a town in Tendring, East of England.
About 8,939 people lived in Brightlingsea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 141 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 46.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brightlingsea was £275,000 in 2025.
Brightlingsea had 8,678 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Brightlingsea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brightlingsea, 52.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.