Neighbourhoods in Thurrock
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20 neighbourhoods · 100 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Grays Town | £1,107 | +6.4% | 52 | 65 |
| Thurrock 021 | £1,121 | +6.4% | 42 | 46 |
| Thurrock 022 | £1,226 | +6.4% | 14 | 18 |
| Tilbury | £1,284 | +6.4% | 5 | 23 |
| Grays Chafford Gorges & Orsett Road | £1,285 | +6.4% | 52 | 66 |
| North Ockendon | £1,319 | +6.4% | 34 | 61 |
| South Ockendon | £1,321 | +6.4% | 43 | 61 |
| Corringham South | £1,342 | +6.4% | 38 | 81 |
| Stanford West | £1,354 | +6.4% | 31 | 72 |
| Stanford East | £1,355 | +6.4% | 62 | 87 |
| Chadwell St Mary | £1,358 | +6.4% | 5 | 34 |
| East Tilbury | £1,359 | +6.4% | 16 | 69 |
| South Chafford | £1,387 | +6.4% | 70 | 82 |
| Little Thurrock South | £1,396 | +6.4% | 58 | 80 |
| Aveley | £1,400 | +6.4% | 12 | 69 |
| Chafford & North Stifford | £1,409 | +6.4% | 54 | 77 |
| Corringham North & London Gateway | £1,424 | +6.4% | 46 | 92 |
| Stifford Clays | £1,503 | +6.4% | 46 | 75 |
| Little Thurrock North | £1,508 | +6.4% | 55 | 83 |
| Orsett, Bulphan & Hordon-on-the-Hill | £1,584 | +6.4% | 19 | 74 |
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 Thurrock
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Thurrock. 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 Thurrock median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Thurrock.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Thurrock
Crime in Thurrock runs at 30% below the national average. Below median (#189 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 69.8, 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 Thurrock
100% of schools serving Thurrock 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 Thurrock
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 Thurrock
Thurrock has 0.45 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 Thurrock
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 Thurrock?
- The median monthly rent across Thurrock is £1,344, 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 Thurrock?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Thurrock by estimated median rent is Grays Town at approximately £1,107/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Thurrock?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Thurrock is South Chafford at 70/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Thurrock a safe area?
- Thurrock has an average safety score of 63/100 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 Thurrock?
- The most common council tax band in Thurrock is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,887. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Thurrock.
- What is the average salary in Thurrock?
- The median annual resident salary in Thurrock is £36,407, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Thurrock, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Thurrock?
- The average property price in Thurrock is approximately £328,127 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 Thurrock?
- Gross rental yield in Thurrock is approximately 4.0% — 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 Thurrock?
- 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 4.9 years in Thurrock. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Thurrock?
- 100% of premises in Thurrock 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 Thurrock?
- 4.4% of 16-64 residents in Thurrock 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 Thurrock?
- Thurrock contains 20 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 100 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 Thurrock
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.
- Thurrock 017C
- Thurrock 017B
- Thurrock 019C
- Thurrock 021B
- Thurrock 019A
- Thurrock 020D
- Thurrock 016B
- Thurrock 016E
- Thurrock 019B
- Thurrock 018A
- Thurrock 022B
- Thurrock 008B
- Thurrock 021C
- Thurrock 020E
- Thurrock 018D
- Thurrock 017A
- Thurrock 017D
- Thurrock 016D
- Thurrock 014D
- Thurrock 016C
- Thurrock 022D
- Thurrock 019D
- Thurrock 006H
- Thurrock 022C
- Thurrock 005A
- Thurrock 013B
- Thurrock 008E
- Thurrock 020B
- Thurrock 018E
- Thurrock 022A
- Thurrock 013A
- Thurrock 018C
- Thurrock 014E
- Thurrock 005C
- Thurrock 018F
- Thurrock 007E
- Thurrock 018G
- Thurrock 006F
- Thurrock 009A
- Thurrock 010C
- Thurrock 020A
- Thurrock 007D
- Thurrock 007B
- Thurrock 014C
- Thurrock 002C
- Thurrock 007F
- Thurrock 007A
- Thurrock 006C
- Thurrock 016A
- Thurrock 005B
- Thurrock 004A
- Thurrock 020C
- Thurrock 010B
- Thurrock 012B
- Thurrock 012C
- Thurrock 009F
- Thurrock 012D
- Thurrock 006G
- Thurrock 002B
- Thurrock 009D
- Thurrock 018H
- Thurrock 003C
- Thurrock 001A
- Thurrock 006A
- Thurrock 002D
- Thurrock 006B
- Thurrock 003E
- Thurrock 012A
- Thurrock 004B
- Thurrock 021A
- Thurrock 014B
- Thurrock 005D
- Thurrock 010A
- Thurrock 009C
- Thurrock 013D
- Thurrock 014A
- Thurrock 010D
- Thurrock 018B
- Thurrock 002E
- Thurrock 008C
Showing 80 of 100 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.