Neighbourhoods in Basildon
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22 neighbourhoods · 112 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Chalvedon | £1,235 | +5.7% | 19 | 9 |
| Basildon Central & Pipps Hill | £1,239 | +5.7% | 44 | 37 |
| Felmore & Bowers Gifford | £1,244 | +5.7% | 55 | 40 |
| Barstable | £1,247 | +5.7% | 17 | 27 |
| Vange & Pitsea | £1,248 | +5.7% | 17 | 34 |
| Laindon East & Lee Chapel North | £1,265 | +5.7% | 78 | 78 |
| Eversley | £1,266 | +5.7% | 30 | 40 |
| Whitmore Way & Fremnells | £1,287 | +5.7% | 23 | 46 |
| Laindon Central | £1,298 | +5.7% | 43 | 37 |
| Wickford South | £1,313 | +5.7% | 49 | 61 |
| Lee Chapel South & Kingswood | £1,314 | +5.7% | 44 | 56 |
| Laindon West & Southfields | £1,351 | +5.7% | 46 | 65 |
| Wickford North East | £1,370 | +5.7% | 30 | 51 |
| Steeple View & Noak Bridge | £1,379 | +5.7% | 15 | 75 |
| Wickford Shotgate | £1,395 | +5.7% | 60 | 93 |
| Wickford West | £1,461 | +5.7% | 53 | 88 |
| Langdon Hills | £1,475 | +5.7% | 58 | 81 |
| Billericay Queen's Park | £1,527 | +5.7% | 54 | 97 |
| Bursteads | £1,609 | +5.7% | 17 | 84 |
| Billericay Central & Sunnymede | £1,648 | +5.7% | 59 | 86 |
| Billericay Tye Common | £1,737 | +5.7% | 24 | 76 |
| Billericay North East | £1,880 | +5.7% | 51 | 95 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Basildon
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Basildon. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Basildon median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Basildon.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Basildon
Crime in Basildon runs at 30% below the national average. Below median (#195 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 70.6, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Basildon
100% of schools serving Basildon are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Basildon
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Basildon
Basildon has 0.47 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Basildon
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Basildon?
- The median monthly rent across Basildon is £1,396, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Basildon?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Basildon by estimated median rent is Chalvedon at approximately £1,235/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Basildon?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Basildon is Laindon East & Lee Chapel North at 78/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Basildon a safe area?
- Basildon has an average safety score of 60/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Basildon?
- The most common council tax band in Basildon is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £317. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Basildon.
- What is the average salary in Basildon?
- The median annual resident salary in Basildon is £34,133, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Basildon, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Basildon?
- The average property price in Basildon is approximately £357,438 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Basildon?
- Gross rental yield in Basildon is approximately 4.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Basildon?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 5.1 years in Basildon. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Basildon?
- 100% of premises in Basildon are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Basildon?
- 3.9% of 16-64 residents in Basildon are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Basildon?
- Basildon contains 22 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 112 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Basildon
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Basildon 020F
- Basildon 008C
- Basildon 015C
- Basildon 008A
- Basildon 016A
- Basildon 022D
- Basildon 017B
- Basildon 019D
- Basildon 015A
- Basildon 016E
- Basildon 010D
- Basildon 018E
- Basildon 021A
- Basildon 012D
- Basildon 008E
- Basildon 005B
- Basildon 002C
- Basildon 017C
- Basildon 016C
- Basildon 019B
- Basildon 022A
- Basildon 018D
- Basildon 013A
- Basildon 008D
- Basildon 015E
- Basildon 003B
- Basildon 017E
- Basildon 007E
- Basildon 020D
- Basildon 010C
- Basildon 005A
- Basildon 020G
- Basildon 013D
- Basildon 004A
- Basildon 015D
- Basildon 011D
- Basildon 016D
- Basildon 005C
- Basildon 008B
- Basildon 001D
- Basildon 014A
- Basildon 019A
- Basildon 020B
- Basildon 016B
- Basildon 020A
- Basildon 017D
- Basildon 012A
- Basildon 019C
- Basildon 011A
- Basildon 019E
- Basildon 014F
- Basildon 017A
- Basildon 009C
- Basildon 012E
- Basildon 010E
- Basildon 004E
- Basildon 011B
- Basildon 013C
- Basildon 003E
- Basildon 022E
- Basildon 007D
- Basildon 006D
- Basildon 018C
- Basildon 009D
- Basildon 021D
- Basildon 012C
- Basildon 007B
- Basildon 001E
- Basildon 014C
- Basildon 010A
- Basildon 011E
- Basildon 011C
- Basildon 007C
- Basildon 013E
- Basildon 014B
- Basildon 006B
- Basildon 021E
- Basildon 013B
- Basildon 014G
- Basildon 021B
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