Clacton-on-Sea
TownTown in Tendring, East of England.
Clacton-on-Sea is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Clacton-on-Sea 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 Clacton-on-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Clacton-on-Sea compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Clacton-on-Sea safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Clacton-on-Sea at a rate of 128.6 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, 758 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Clacton-on-Sea.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,174), other crime (1,221) and anti-social behaviour (854).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Clacton-on-Sea was 121.1 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 Clacton-on-Sea, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Clacton-on-Sea has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Clacton-on-Sea
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tendring 010A | 2,177 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.0% |
| Tendring 010B | 1,505 | 287.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.1% |
| Tendring 010C | 1,777 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 70.9% |
| Tendring 010D | 1,512 | 106.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 55.5% |
| Tendring 012A | 2,121 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.4% |
| Tendring 012B | 1,475 | 100.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.2% |
| Tendring 012C | 1,540 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Tendring 012D | 1,448 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Tendring 013A | 1,540 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.8% |
| Tendring 013B | 1,546 | 81.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 55.7% |
| Tendring 013C | 2,798 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 71.9% |
| Tendring 013D | 1,517 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.6% |
| Tendring 013E | 1,637 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Tendring 014A | 1,549 | 141.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.5% |
| Tendring 014B | 1,890 | 150.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.1% |
| Tendring 014C | 1,496 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Tendring 014D | 1,502 | 148.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Tendring 014E | 1,809 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Tendring 015A | 1,461 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 35.6% |
| Tendring 015B | 1,518 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 42.7% |
| Tendring 015C | 1,573 | 93.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.0% |
| Tendring 015D | 1,353 | 196.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 52.6% |
| Tendring 015E | 1,831 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 52.9% |
| Tendring 016A | 1,832 | 112.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Tendring 016B | 1,985 | 606.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Tendring 016C | 1,708 | 293.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Tendring 016D | 1,684 | 166.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Tendring 017A | 1,923 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Tendring 017B | 1,482 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Tendring 017C | 1,201 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Tendring 017D | 1,387 | 212.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Tendring 017E | 1,420 | 151.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
Your MP
- Nigel FarageReform UKMP for Clacton
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 Clacton-on-Sea2
Middle areas in Clacton-on-Sea7
Towns near Clacton-on-Sea6
Clacton-on-Sea in brief
Clacton-on-Sea is a town in Tendring, East of England.
About 55,568 people lived in Clacton-on-Sea in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £244,000 in 2025 across 817 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 128.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Clacton-on-Sea was £244,000 in 2025.
Clacton-on-Sea had 53,190 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Clacton-on-Sea live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Clacton-on-Sea, 85.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.