Hockley and Hawkwell
TownTown in Rochford, East of England.
Hockley and Hawkwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hockley and Hawkwell 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 Hockley and Hawkwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hockley and Hawkwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hockley and Hawkwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hockley and Hawkwell at a rate of 31.8 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, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hockley and Hawkwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (195), anti-social behaviour (93) and other crime (77).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hockley and Hawkwell was 29.9 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 Hockley and Hawkwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hockley and Hawkwell has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hockley and Hawkwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochford 011A | 1,994 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.3% |
| Rochford 011B | 1,520 | 23.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Rochford 011C | 2,316 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.6% |
| Rochford 011D | 1,677 | 11.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Rochford 012A | 1,580 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Rochford 012B | 1,663 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.8% |
| Rochford 012C | 1,311 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Rochford 012D | 1,364 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.4% |
| Rochford 012E | 2,002 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.3% |
Your MP
- Mr Mark FrancoisConservativeMP for Rayleigh and Wickford
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 Hockley and Hawkwell1
Middle areas in Hockley and Hawkwell2
Towns near Hockley and Hawkwell6
Hockley and Hawkwell in brief
Hockley and Hawkwell is a town in Rochford, East of England.
About 15,967 people lived in Hockley and Hawkwell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £450,000 in 2025 across 267 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 31.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hockley and Hawkwell was £450,000 in 2025.
Hockley and Hawkwell had 15,430 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hockley and Hawkwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hockley and Hawkwell, 94.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.