Neighbourhoods in Southend-on-Sea
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17 neighbourhoods · 108 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Southend Central | £1,012 | +5.6% | 81 | 27 |
| Victoria | £1,033 | +5.6% | 85 | 12 |
| Kursaal | £1,061 | +5.6% | 71 | 18 |
| Westborough | £1,150 | +5.6% | 96 | 85 |
| St Lukes | £1,170 | +5.6% | 80 | 54 |
| Chalkwell | £1,198 | +5.6% | 74 | 50 |
| Shoeburyness | £1,208 | +5.6% | 45 | 65 |
| Eastwood | £1,234 | +5.6% | 71 | 77 |
| Prittlewell | £1,263 | +5.6% | 64 | 45 |
| Eastwood Park | £1,326 | +5.6% | 43 | 84 |
| Leigh | £1,335 | +5.6% | 84 | 80 |
| Blenheim Park | £1,336 | +5.6% | 54 | 72 |
| West Shoebury | £1,353 | +5.6% | 54 | 76 |
| Belfairs | £1,365 | +5.6% | 70 | 86 |
| Southchurch | £1,369 | +5.6% | 44 | 55 |
| Thorpe Bay | £1,496 | +5.6% | 55 | 89 |
| West Leigh | £1,777 | +5.6% | 72 | 91 |
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 Southend-on-Sea
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Southend-on-Sea. 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 Southend-on-Sea median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Southend-on-Sea.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Southend-on-Sea
Crime in Southend-on-Sea runs at 33% below the national average. Below median (#178 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 66.9, 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 Southend-on-Sea
100% of schools serving Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea
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 Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea has 0.35 jobs per resident locally. Bottom quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Southend-on-Sea
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 Southend-on-Sea?
- The median monthly rent across Southend-on-Sea is £1,278, 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Southend-on-Sea by estimated median rent is Southend Central at approximately £1,012/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Southend-on-Sea?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Southend-on-Sea is Westborough at 96/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Southend-on-Sea a safe area?
- Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- The most common council tax band in Southend-on-Sea is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,897. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Southend-on-Sea.
- What is the average salary in Southend-on-Sea?
- The median annual resident salary in Southend-on-Sea is £33,594, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Southend-on-Sea, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Southend-on-Sea?
- The average property price in Southend-on-Sea is approximately £330,364 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- Gross rental yield in Southend-on-Sea is approximately 3.9% — 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- 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 Southend-on-Sea. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Southend-on-Sea?
- 100% of premises in Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- 4.4% of 16-64 residents in Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea?
- Southend-on-Sea contains 17 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 108 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 Southend-on-Sea
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.
- Southend-on-Sea 014C
- Southend-on-Sea 014A
- Southend-on-Sea 015E
- Southend-on-Sea 010B
- Southend-on-Sea 014F
- Southend-on-Sea 010E
- Southend-on-Sea 010F
- Southend-on-Sea 004F
- Southend-on-Sea 010D
- Southend-on-Sea 015F
- Southend-on-Sea 011C
- Southend-on-Sea 015D
- Southend-on-Sea 012E
- Southend-on-Sea 009B
- Southend-on-Sea 015B
- Southend-on-Sea 007C
- Southend-on-Sea 007A
- Southend-on-Sea 007B
- Southend-on-Sea 015A
- Southend-on-Sea 014B
- Southend-on-Sea 012B
- Southend-on-Sea 010H
- Southend-on-Sea 011A
- Southend-on-Sea 006D
- Southend-on-Sea 015C
- Southend-on-Sea 005D
- Southend-on-Sea 014D
- Southend-on-Sea 008F
- Southend-on-Sea 002F
- Southend-on-Sea 013G
- Southend-on-Sea 007E
- Southend-on-Sea 011B
- Southend-on-Sea 007G
- Southend-on-Sea 012C
- Southend-on-Sea 010G
- Southend-on-Sea 014E
- Southend-on-Sea 006B
- Southend-on-Sea 007D
- Southend-on-Sea 007F
- Southend-on-Sea 004C
- Southend-on-Sea 011E
- Southend-on-Sea 017D
- Southend-on-Sea 006F
- Southend-on-Sea 012F
- Southend-on-Sea 008B
- Southend-on-Sea 010C
- Southend-on-Sea 011F
- Southend-on-Sea 006A
- Southend-on-Sea 002A
- Southend-on-Sea 012A
- Southend-on-Sea 004D
- Southend-on-Sea 002D
- Southend-on-Sea 003E
- Southend-on-Sea 001C
- Southend-on-Sea 006E
- Southend-on-Sea 016D
- Southend-on-Sea 011D
- Southend-on-Sea 004E
- Southend-on-Sea 005B
- Southend-on-Sea 005A
- Southend-on-Sea 002E
- Southend-on-Sea 016C
- Southend-on-Sea 009E
- Southend-on-Sea 004B
- Southend-on-Sea 001E
- Southend-on-Sea 006C
- Southend-on-Sea 005E
- Southend-on-Sea 013D
- Southend-on-Sea 012D
- Southend-on-Sea 013B
- Southend-on-Sea 017E
- Southend-on-Sea 005F
- Southend-on-Sea 003B
- Southend-on-Sea 013E
- Southend-on-Sea 003C
- Southend-on-Sea 001A
- Southend-on-Sea 008A
- Southend-on-Sea 006G
- Southend-on-Sea 008E
- Southend-on-Sea 013A
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