# Great Dunmow

Town in Uttlesford, East of England.

Great Dunmow is a town in Uttlesford, East of England. Median sale price £435,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 61.2 per 1,000 people. About 11,365 people.

Town. Code E63004165. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Uttlesford](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £435,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Great Dunmow was £435,000 in 2025. Joint 138th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 10,395** (2021). Great Dunmow had 10,395 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 253rd least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Great Dunmow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 85.3%** (January 2026). In Great Dunmow, 85.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63004165) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63004165) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 274 homes were sold in Great Dunmow in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63004165) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Great Dunmow.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63004165) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Great Dunmow had 10,395 usual residents at the census.

## How Great Dunmow compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Great Dunmow | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £435,000 | joint 26th most expensive | 130 towns, East of England · 2025 |
| Population | 10,395 | 28th least populated | 130 towns, East of England · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 130 towns, East of England · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 85.3% | 28th lowest | 130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Great Dunmow

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Uttlesford 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01022067) | 1,919 | 83.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.0% |
| [Uttlesford 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01022068) | 1,999 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.2% |
| [Uttlesford 007D](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01033054) | 1,232 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.1% |
| [Uttlesford 007E](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01033055) | 2,284 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| [Uttlesford 007F](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01033056) | 1,585 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| [Uttlesford 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/neighbourhood/e01022069) | 1,598 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.0% |

## Your MP

- [North West Essex](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/north-west-essex): Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Uttlesford](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford)

## Postcode districts covering Great Dunmow

[CM6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cm6)

## Middle areas in Great Dunmow

[Great Dunmow](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford/great-dunmow)

## Towns near Great Dunmow

[Stansted Mountfitchet](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stansted-mountfitchet), [Bishop's Stortford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bishops-stortford), [Great Notley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-notley), [Braintree](https://openindex.co.uk/town/braintree), [Chelmsford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chelmsford), [Sawbridgeworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sawbridgeworth)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63004165
- Constituency: [North West Essex †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/north-west-essex)
- Council: [Uttlesford †](https://openindex.co.uk/uttlesford)
- Region: [East of England](https://openindex.co.uk/east-of-england)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 3.39 km²
- People, mid-2024: 11,365*
- Neighbourhoods: 6
- Output areas: 31

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Stansted Mountfitchet](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stansted-mountfitchet), [Bishop's Stortford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bishops-stortford), [Great Notley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-notley), [Braintree](https://openindex.co.uk/town/braintree), [Chelmsford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chelmsford), [Sawbridgeworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sawbridgeworth)

## Latest updates for Great Dunmow

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63004165

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-dunmow
