Chelmsford
TownTown in Chelmsford, East of England.
Chelmsford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chelmsford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chelmsford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chelmsford at a rate of 98.9 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, 1,120 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chelmsford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,612), other crime (1,953) and shoplifting (1,404).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chelmsford was 92.8 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 Chelmsford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chelmsford has no single figure. Of its 69 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 15 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 19 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chelmsford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelmsford 001F | 1,685 | 90.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% |
| Chelmsford 002C | 1,465 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 002D | 1,404 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| Chelmsford 002E | 1,616 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 003B | 1,562 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Chelmsford 003C | 1,613 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Chelmsford 003D | 1,142 | 15.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Chelmsford 003E | 1,524 | 136.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
| Chelmsford 004B | 1,316 | 97.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.3% |
| Chelmsford 004C | 1,428 | 23.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.3% |
| Chelmsford 004D | 1,465 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.2% |
| Chelmsford 004E | 1,240 | 20.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Chelmsford 004F | 1,226 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Chelmsford 004G | 1,517 | 116.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Chelmsford 004H | 1,804 | 17.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| Chelmsford 005E | 2,146 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Chelmsford 005F | 1,779 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Chelmsford 006A | 1,710 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Chelmsford 006B | 1,376 | 118.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.1% |
| Chelmsford 006C | 1,577 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.3% |
| Chelmsford 006D | 1,633 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Chelmsford 006E | 1,611 | 125.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 007A | 1,431 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Chelmsford 007B | 1,579 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Chelmsford 007C | 1,523 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Chelmsford 007D | 1,448 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Chelmsford 007E | 1,493 | 95.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Chelmsford 008A | 1,263 | 256.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.7% |
| Chelmsford 008B | 1,565 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.7% |
| Chelmsford 008C | 1,404 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.2% |
| Chelmsford 008D | 1,461 | 160.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.7% |
| Chelmsford 008E | 1,838 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Chelmsford 008F | 1,816 | 57.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.4% |
| Chelmsford 009A | 1,778 | 155.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Chelmsford 009B | 1,700 | 69.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Chelmsford 009C | 1,837 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.6% |
| Chelmsford 009E | 1,920 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 009F | 1,474 | 216.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.3% |
| Chelmsford 009G | 1,640 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.4% |
| Chelmsford 011B | 1,566 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Chelmsford 012A | 2,150 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.9% |
| Chelmsford 012B | 1,547 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| Chelmsford 012C | 1,801 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Chelmsford 012D | 1,469 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 012E | 1,257 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Chelmsford 013A | 1,228 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Chelmsford 013B | 1,696 | 55.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.5% |
| Chelmsford 013C | 1,839 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.0% |
| Chelmsford 013D | 1,527 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Chelmsford 014A | 1,719 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
| Chelmsford 014B | 1,731 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.8% |
| Chelmsford 014C | 1,650 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Chelmsford 014D | 1,651 | 41.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.7% |
| Chelmsford 014F | 1,601 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.6% |
| Chelmsford 014G | 1,538 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.9% |
| Chelmsford 015A | 1,263 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Chelmsford 015B | 1,177 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Chelmsford 015C | 1,593 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.3% |
| Chelmsford 015D | 1,263 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chelmsford 015E | 1,541 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.6% |
| Chelmsford 017E | 1,387 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| Chelmsford 022A | 2,305 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.9% |
| Chelmsford 022B | 1,590 | 162.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Chelmsford 022C | 1,310 | 603.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.4% |
| Chelmsford 022D | 2,049 | 426.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.3% |
| Chelmsford 023A | 1,269 | 312.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.2% |
| Chelmsford 023B | 1,243 | 768.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.3% |
| Chelmsford 023C | 2,091 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.3% |
| Chelmsford 023D | 1,824 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.1% |
Your MP
- Marie GoldmanLiberal DemocratMP for Chelmsford
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Chelmsford2
Middle areas in Chelmsford13
Towns near Chelmsford6
Chelmsford in brief
Chelmsford is a town in Chelmsford, East of England.
About 115,781 people lived in Chelmsford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £385,000 in 2025 across 1,750 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 98.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chelmsford was £385,000 in 2025.
Chelmsford had 110,612 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Chelmsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chelmsford, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.