Runwell
TownTown in Chelmsford and Basildon, East of England.
Runwell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Runwell 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 Runwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Runwell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Runwell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Runwell at a rate of 76.4 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, 74 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Runwell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (278), other crime (109) and anti-social behaviour (94).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Runwell was 64.5 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 Runwell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Runwell has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Runwell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basildon 005A | 1,711 | 115.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.8% |
| Basildon 005C | 2,132 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.1% |
| Chelmsford 021A | 1,627 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Chelmsford 021C | 1,837 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.1% |
| Chelmsford 021E | 1,651 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.1% |
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.
Councils Runwell sits in2
Postcode districts covering Runwell1
Middle areas in Runwell2
Towns near Runwell6
Runwell in brief
Runwell is a town in Chelmsford and Basildon, East of England.
About 8,642 people lived in Runwell 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 157 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Runwell was £425,000 in 2025.
Runwell had 8,086 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Runwell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Runwell, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.