Halstead
TownTown in Braintree, East of England.
Halstead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Halstead 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 Halstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Halstead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Halstead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Halstead at a rate of 61.5 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, 104 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Halstead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (395), other crime (163) and shoplifting (92).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Halstead was 69.1 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 Halstead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Halstead has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Halstead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree 003A | 1,944 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.2% |
| Braintree 004A | 2,120 | 109.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 68.7% |
| Braintree 004B | 1,780 | 92.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 80.2% |
| Braintree 004C | 1,676 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| Braintree 004D | 1,735 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 63.9% |
| Braintree 004E | 1,574 | 66.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.1% |
| Braintree 006A | 2,165 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 67.2% |
| Braintree 006B | 1,859 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
Your MP
- Sir James CleverlyConservativeMP for Braintree
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 Halstead1
Middle areas in Halstead1
Towns near Halstead6
Halstead in brief
Halstead is a town in Braintree, East of England.
About 14,807 people lived in Halstead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £325,000 in 2025 across 243 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Halstead was £325,000 in 2025.
Halstead had 13,902 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Halstead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Halstead, 79.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.