Witham
TownTown in Braintree, East of England.
Witham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Witham 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 Witham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Witham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Witham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Witham at a rate of 76.9 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, 198 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Witham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,006), other crime (420) and anti-social behaviour (277).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Witham was 77.9 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 Witham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Witham has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Witham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree 015B | 1,536 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.5% |
| Braintree 015C | 1,546 | 95.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Braintree 015D | 1,730 | 71.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.5% |
| Braintree 015E | 1,249 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.3% |
| Braintree 015F | 1,397 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.5% |
| Braintree 016A | 1,590 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| Braintree 016B | 1,486 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 016C | 1,342 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.2% |
| Braintree 016D | 1,324 | 82.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| Braintree 017A | 1,564 | 133.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 79.0% |
| Braintree 017B | 1,933 | 183.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.9% |
| Braintree 017C | 1,717 | 66.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.8% |
| Braintree 017E | 1,749 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Braintree 017F | 2,081 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.9% |
| Braintree 017G | 1,506 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Braintree 017H | 1,034 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.3% |
| Braintree 018E | 2,252 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
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 Witham1
Middle areas in Witham3
Towns near Witham6
Witham in brief
Witham is a town in Braintree, East of England.
About 28,572 people lived in Witham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £322,150 in 2025 across 460 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Witham was £322,150 in 2025.
Witham had 27,395 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Witham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Witham, 91.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.