Harwich
TownTown in Tendring, East of England.
Harwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Harwich 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 13% of people in Harwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Harwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Harwich safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Harwich at a rate of 101.0 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, 239 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Harwich.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (977), other crime (313) and anti-social behaviour (251).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Harwich was 91.9 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 Harwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Harwich has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Harwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tendring 001A | 1,324 | 139.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.1% |
| Tendring 001B | 1,456 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| Tendring 001C | 1,702 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.3% |
| Tendring 001D | 1,936 | 226.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Tendring 002A | 1,644 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.5% |
| Tendring 002C | 1,796 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 84.8% |
| Tendring 002D | 1,870 | 196.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Tendring 004B | 1,189 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 18.4% |
| Tendring 004C | 1,949 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Tendring 004D | 1,737 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 66.2% |
| Tendring 004E | 1,801 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.0% |
| Tendring 004F | 1,412 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 57.5% |
Your MP
- Sir Bernard JenkinConservativeMP for Harwich and North 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 Harwich1
Middle areas in Harwich3
Towns near Harwich6
Harwich in brief
Harwich is a town in Tendring, East of England.
About 20,999 people lived in Harwich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £255,000 in 2025 across 338 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Harwich was £255,000 in 2025.
Harwich had 20,219 usual residents at the census.
About 13% of people in Harwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Harwich, 83.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.