Grays
TownTown in Thurrock, East of England.
Grays is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Grays 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 86% of people in Grays live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Grays compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Grays safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grays at a rate of 102.4 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, 504 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grays.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,704), other crime (818) and anti-social behaviour (554).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Grays was 98.7 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 Grays, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Grays has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Grays
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurrock 009A | 1,536 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Thurrock 009B | 1,355 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Thurrock 009C | 1,643 | 116.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.6% |
| Thurrock 009D | 1,703 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Thurrock 009E | 1,667 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Thurrock 009F | 1,742 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Thurrock 010A | 1,211 | 147.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Thurrock 010B | 1,614 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Thurrock 010C | 2,626 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Thurrock 010D | 1,630 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Thurrock 014A | 1,506 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Thurrock 014B | 1,572 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Thurrock 014C | 1,445 | 59.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.2% |
| Thurrock 014D | 1,834 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Thurrock 014E | 1,413 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| Thurrock 016A | 1,711 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.5% |
| Thurrock 016B | 2,156 | 245.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.4% |
| Thurrock 016C | 1,951 | 100.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Thurrock 016D | 1,655 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Thurrock 016E | 1,831 | 121.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.8% |
| Thurrock 017A | 1,763 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Thurrock 017B | 2,371 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| Thurrock 017C | 2,709 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.6% |
| Thurrock 017D | 2,581 | 361.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
Your MP
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 Grays2
Middle areas in Grays5
Towns near Grays6
Grays in brief
Grays is a town in Thurrock, East of England.
About 45,637 people lived in Grays in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £360,000 in 2025 across 519 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 102.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Grays was £360,000 in 2025.
Grays had 44,340 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Grays live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Grays, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.