Heybridge East
WardWest Maldon. About 4,174 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Heybridge East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heybridge East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heybridge East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heybridge East at a rate of 27.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 50.4 per 1,000 people across Maldon.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 11 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heybridge East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (53), other crime (23) and anti-social behaviour (16).
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 Maldon
These figures are published for the whole of Maldon, not for each ward, so they describe all of Maldon and not Heybridge East alone. See Maldon
Heybridge East in brief
Heybridge East had 4,095 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Heybridge East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heybridge East, 69.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Heybridge East, 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.