Rayleigh
TownTown in Rochford, East of England.
Rayleigh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rayleigh 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 Rayleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rayleigh compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rayleigh safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rayleigh at a rate of 53.6 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, 162 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rayleigh.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (779), other crime (261) and anti-social behaviour (227).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rayleigh was 48.9 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 Rayleigh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rayleigh has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rayleigh
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochford 005A | 1,484 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| Rochford 005B | 1,342 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.6% |
| Rochford 005C | 1,667 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.7% |
| Rochford 005D | 2,039 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Rochford 005E | 1,593 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Rochford 006A | 2,193 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 75.6% |
| Rochford 006B | 2,087 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.1% |
| Rochford 006C | 1,710 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 24.1% |
| Rochford 006D | 1,229 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.6% |
| Rochford 006E | 1,642 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.8% |
| Rochford 008A | 1,445 | 44.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Rochford 008B | 1,273 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Rochford 008C | 1,238 | 239.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.2% |
| Rochford 008D | 1,374 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Rochford 008E | 1,611 | 61.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.7% |
| Rochford 008F | 1,750 | 124.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 82.3% |
| Rochford 009B | 1,232 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 75.1% |
| Rochford 009C | 1,283 | 10.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.9% |
| Rochford 009D | 1,477 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.1% |
| Rochford 009E | 2,340 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.3% |
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 Rayleigh1
Middle areas in Rayleigh4
Towns near Rayleigh6
Rayleigh in brief
Rayleigh is a town in Rochford, East of England.
About 33,597 people lived in Rayleigh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £425,000 in 2025 across 562 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 53.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rayleigh was £425,000 in 2025.
Rayleigh had 32,383 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rayleigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rayleigh, 83.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.