Rural East
WardEast Epping Forest. About 8,263 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 105 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Rural East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rural East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rural East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rural East at a rate of 66.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 75.7 per 1,000 people across Epping Forest.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rural East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (148), other crime (148) and shoplifting (113).
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 Epping Forest
These figures are published for the whole of Epping Forest, not for each ward, so they describe all of Epping Forest and not Rural East alone. See Epping Forest
Rural East in brief
Rural East had 8,056 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rural East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rural East, 81.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rural East, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.