Tiptree
TownTown in Colchester, East of England.
Tiptree is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tiptree 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 Tiptree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tiptree compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tiptree safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tiptree at a rate of 44.5 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, 40 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tiptree.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (196), other crime (81) and anti-social behaviour (39).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tiptree was 50.5 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 Tiptree, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tiptree has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Tiptree
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colchester 019A | 2,454 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 47.1% |
| Colchester 020A | 1,884 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 72.8% |
| Colchester 020B | 1,671 | 24.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 73.3% |
| Colchester 020C | 1,483 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 73.0% |
| Colchester 020D | 1,518 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 0.9% |
| Colchester 020E | 1,532 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 17.0% |
Your MP
- Priti PatelConservativeMP for Witham
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 Tiptree1
Middle areas in Tiptree1
Towns near Tiptree6
Tiptree in brief
Tiptree is a town in Colchester, East of England.
About 9,606 people lived in Tiptree in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £365,000 in 2025 across 227 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 44.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tiptree was £365,000 in 2025.
Tiptree had 9,302 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Tiptree live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tiptree, 45.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.