Stansted Mountfitchet
TownTown in Uttlesford, East of England.
Stansted Mountfitchet is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stansted Mountfitchet 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 78% of people in Stansted Mountfitchet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stansted Mountfitchet compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stansted Mountfitchet safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stansted Mountfitchet at a rate of 57.7 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, 48 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stansted Mountfitchet.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (178), other crime (146) and anti-social behaviour (50).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stansted Mountfitchet was 62.6 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 Stansted Mountfitchet, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stansted Mountfitchet has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Stansted Mountfitchet
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uttlesford 005C | 1,796 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.6% |
| Uttlesford 005D | 2,003 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
| Uttlesford 005E | 1,725 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.8% |
| Uttlesford 005F | 2,758 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.2% |
| Uttlesford 006A | 1,767 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 68.5% |
Your MP
- Mrs Kemi BadenochConservativeMP for North West Essex
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 Stansted Mountfitchet1
Middle areas in Stansted Mountfitchet1
Towns near Stansted Mountfitchet6
Stansted Mountfitchet in brief
Stansted Mountfitchet is a town in Uttlesford, East of England.
About 9,048 people lived in Stansted Mountfitchet 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 139 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stansted Mountfitchet was £450,000 in 2025.
Stansted Mountfitchet had 8,629 usual residents at the census.
About 78% of people in Stansted Mountfitchet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stansted Mountfitchet, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.