Maldon
TownTown in Maldon, East of England.
Maldon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maldon 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 Maldon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Maldon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Maldon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maldon at a rate of 66.5 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, 182 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maldon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (765), other crime (269) and anti-social behaviour (186).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maldon was 67.7 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 Maldon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maldon has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Maldon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maldon 003A | 1,392 | 29.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 74.9% |
| Maldon 003C | 1,588 | 24.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 65.0% |
| Maldon 003D | 2,343 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Maldon 003E | 2,467 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 59.5% |
| Maldon 004A | 2,500 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Maldon 004B | 1,809 | 177.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.7% |
| Maldon 004C | 1,518 | 90.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.1% |
| Maldon 004D | 1,082 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.1% |
| Maldon 005A | 1,459 | 21.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Maldon 005B | 1,227 | 51.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Maldon 005C | 1,152 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.1% |
| Maldon 005D | 1,835 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| Maldon 005E | 1,083 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Maldon 005F | 1,273 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Sir John WhittingdaleConservativeMP for Maldon
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 Maldon1
Middle areas in Maldon3
Towns near Maldon6
Maldon in brief
Maldon is a town in Maldon, East of England.
About 24,492 people lived in Maldon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £365,375 in 2025 across 488 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Maldon was £365,375 in 2025.
Maldon had 23,389 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Maldon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Maldon, 89.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.