Rochford
TownTown in Rochford, East of England.
Rochford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rochford 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 Rochford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rochford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rochford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rochford at a rate of 86.7 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, 100 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rochford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (564), other crime (193) and anti-social behaviour (118).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rochford was 79.8 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 Rochford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rochford has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rochford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochford 002E | 1,585 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Rochford 004C | 1,340 | 145.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Rochford 004D | 1,743 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Rochford 007A | 1,316 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Rochford 007B | 1,537 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Rochford 007C | 1,474 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Rochford 007D | 2,841 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.5% |
| Rochford 007E | 1,482 | 162.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
Your MP
- Mr Bayo AlabaIndependentMP for Southend East and Rochford
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 Rochford1
Middle areas in Rochford1
Towns near Rochford6
Rochford in brief
Rochford is a town in Rochford, East of England.
About 13,534 people lived in Rochford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £368,000 in 2025 across 258 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rochford was £368,000 in 2025.
Rochford had 12,617 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rochford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rochford, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.