Great Dunmow
TownTown in Uttlesford, East of England.
Great Dunmow is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Great Dunmow 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 Great Dunmow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Great Dunmow compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Great Dunmow safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Dunmow at a rate of 61.2 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 Great Dunmow.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (294), other crime (118) and anti-social behaviour (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Great Dunmow was 58.6 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 Great Dunmow, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Great Dunmow has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Great Dunmow
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttlesford 007B | 1,919 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.0% |
| Uttlesford 007C | 1,999 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.2% |
| Uttlesford 007D | 1,232 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.1% |
| Uttlesford 007E | 2,284 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Uttlesford 007F | 1,585 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Uttlesford 008D | 1,598 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.0% |
Your MP
- Mrs Kemi BadenochConservativeMP for North West Essex
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 Great Dunmow1
Middle areas in Great Dunmow1
Towns near Great Dunmow6
Great Dunmow in brief
Great Dunmow is a town in Uttlesford, East of England.
About 11,365 people lived in Great Dunmow in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £435,000 in 2025 across 274 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Great Dunmow was £435,000 in 2025.
Great Dunmow had 10,395 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Great Dunmow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Great Dunmow, 85.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.