Canvey Island
TownTown in Castle Point, East of England.
Canvey Island is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Canvey Island 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 Canvey Island live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Canvey Island compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Canvey Island safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Canvey Island at a rate of 82.6 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, 263 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Canvey Island.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,351), anti-social behaviour (605) and other crime (485).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Canvey Island was 74.5 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 Canvey Island, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Canvey Island has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Canvey Island
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Point 008A | 1,325 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Castle Point 008B | 1,427 | 97.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Castle Point 008C | 1,501 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Castle Point 008D | 1,430 | 55.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| Castle Point 008E | 1,292 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Castle Point 009A | 1,647 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Castle Point 009B | 1,514 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Castle Point 009C | 2,030 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.2% |
| Castle Point 009D | 1,456 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.4% |
| Castle Point 010A | 1,227 | 86.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Castle Point 010B | 1,328 | 120.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Castle Point 010C | 1,501 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Castle Point 010D | 1,462 | 251.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.1% |
| Castle Point 010E | 1,496 | 116.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.9% |
| Castle Point 010F | 1,327 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Castle Point 011A | 1,351 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Castle Point 011B | 1,647 | 248.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.1% |
| Castle Point 011C | 1,582 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.7% |
| Castle Point 011D | 1,384 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 79.0% |
| Castle Point 011E | 2,034 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 69.8% |
| Castle Point 012A | 1,391 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Castle Point 012B | 1,414 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.7% |
| Castle Point 012C | 1,662 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.2% |
| Castle Point 012D | 1,513 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.8% |
| Castle Point 012E | 2,382 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 32.4% |
Your MP
- Rebecca HarrisConservativeMP for Castle Point
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 Canvey Island1
Middle areas in Canvey Island5
Towns near Canvey Island6
Canvey Island in brief
Canvey Island is a town in Castle Point, East of England.
About 38,248 people lived in Canvey Island in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £320,000 in 2025 across 517 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Canvey Island was £320,000 in 2025.
Canvey Island had 38,004 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Canvey Island live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Canvey Island, 86.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.