Chigwell
TownTown in Epping Forest, East of England.
Chigwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chigwell 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 Chigwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chigwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chigwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chigwell at a rate of 66.4 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, 69 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chigwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (322), other crime (150) and vehicle crime (128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chigwell was 60.0 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 Chigwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chigwell has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 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 Chigwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epping Forest 016B | 1,708 | 121.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.8% |
| Epping Forest 016C | 1,411 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Epping Forest 016D | 1,528 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.6% |
| Epping Forest 017A | 1,893 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.6% |
| Epping Forest 017B | 2,043 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.5% |
| Epping Forest 017C | 1,688 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Epping Forest 017D | 1,978 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
Your MP
- Dr Neil HudsonConservativeMP for Epping Forest
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 Chigwell1
Middle areas in Chigwell2
Towns near Chigwell6
Chigwell in brief
Chigwell is a town in Epping Forest, East of England.
About 12,696 people lived in Chigwell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £733,000 in 2025 across 125 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chigwell was £733,000 in 2025.
Chigwell had 12,251 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Chigwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chigwell, 90.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.