Takeley
WardSouth Uttlesford. About 7,406 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 34 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Takeley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Takeley compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Takeley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Takeley at a rate of 281.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 60.8 per 1,000 people across Uttlesford.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 165 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Takeley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were other crime (525), violence and sexual offences (355) and anti-social behaviour (300).
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.
Figures for the whole of Uttlesford
These figures are published for the whole of Uttlesford, not for each ward, so they describe all of Uttlesford and not Takeley alone. See Uttlesford
Takeley in brief
Takeley had 7,201 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Takeley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Takeley, 84.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Takeley, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.