Tilbury
TownTown in Thurrock, East of England.
Tilbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tilbury 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 4% of people in Tilbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tilbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tilbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tilbury at a rate of 138.7 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, 152 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tilbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (771), anti-social behaviour (312) and criminal damage and arson (265).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tilbury was 133.0 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 Tilbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tilbury has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Tilbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurrock 018A | 2,431 | 163.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.3% |
| Thurrock 018B | 1,946 | 195.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.6% |
| Thurrock 018C | 1,676 | 57.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.6% |
| Thurrock 018D | 1,923 | 128.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| Thurrock 018E | 2,026 | 127.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.3% |
| Thurrock 018F | 1,554 | 62.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Thurrock 018G | 1,739 | 218.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.7% |
| Thurrock 018H | 1,525 | 108.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
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 Tilbury1
Middle areas in Tilbury1
Towns near Tilbury6
Tilbury in brief
Tilbury is a town in Thurrock, East of England.
About 14,847 people lived in Tilbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £325,000 in 2025 across 107 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 138.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tilbury was £325,000 in 2025.
Tilbury had 14,187 usual residents at the census.
About 4% of people in Tilbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tilbury, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.