Ely
TownTown in East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
Ely is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ely 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 Ely live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ely compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ely safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ely at a rate of 79.8 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, 156 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ely.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (471), anti-social behaviour (400) and other crime (241).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ely was 75.8 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 Ely, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ely has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ely
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Cambridgeshire 003A | 1,773 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003D | 2,482 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003E | 1,903 | 116.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003F | 1,613 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003G | 1,410 | 21.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003H | 1,535 | 18.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.9% |
| East Cambridgeshire 003I | 1,242 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| East Cambridgeshire 004B | 1,503 | 366.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.2% |
| East Cambridgeshire 004C | 1,470 | 121.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.4% |
| East Cambridgeshire 004F | 2,010 | 16.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| East Cambridgeshire 004H | 2,405 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.3% |
Your MP
- Charlotte CaneLiberal DemocratMP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire
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 Ely2
Middle areas in Ely2
Towns near Ely6
Ely in brief
Ely is a town in East Cambridgeshire, East of England.
About 20,097 people lived in Ely in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 325 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ely was £350,000 in 2025.
Ely had 19,185 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Ely live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ely, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.