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Great Notley

Town

Town in Braintree, East of England.

Great Notley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Great Notley 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Great Notley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£417,000
166th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
7,659
23rd least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
94.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Great Notley compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Great NotleyMiddle
Median sale price130 towns, East of England · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East of England130 areas from £146,000 to £1,082,500. The middle area is £346,125. Great Notley is £417,000.
£417,00037th most expensive
Population130 towns, East of England · 2021
Population: every town in East of England130 areas from 7,522 to 233,524. The middle area is 19,408. Great Notley is 7,659.
7,6593rd least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares130 towns, East of England · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East of England130 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 0.0%. Great Notley is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage130 towns, East of England · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East of England130 areas from 45.6% to 98.3%. The middle area is 92.4%. Great Notley is 94.7%.
94.7%joint 38th highest

Is Great Notley safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Notley at a rate of 47.9 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Notley.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (127), anti-social behaviour (84) and other crime (79).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Great Notley was 44.2 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 Notley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Great Notley has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Great Notley

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Braintree 010C2,26249.0 per 1,000897.7%
Braintree 013C2,27918.7 per 1,0001099.8%
Braintree 013D1,271118.4 per 1,000789.3%
Braintree 013E1,59011.2 per 1,00010100.0%

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 Great Notley1

Middle areas in Great Notley1

Towns near Great Notley6

Great Notley in brief

Great Notley is a town in Braintree, East of England.

About 7,979 people lived in Great Notley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £417,000 in 2025 across 94 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Great Notley was £417,000 in 2025.

Great Notley had 7,659 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Great Notley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Great Notley, 94.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.