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SS17 is mostly in Thurrock (99% of its 786 postcodes). Figures are for the council area, not for SS17 alone
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This map outlines Thurrock and its wards. Use Full screen for the layers: neighbourhood deprivation (IoD2025, England only) and nearby schools. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

People

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180,989
Resident population · 2024
2.4%
Population change · 2022 to 2024
About the same as England
East of England 2.7%England 2.6%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Resident population
Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).
Office for National Statistics
Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2024Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%)
Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.
Office for National Statistics
Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2022-2024Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Method: Mid-year population estimates

ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Homes

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£355,000
Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025
18% higher than England
East of England £350,000England £300,000
1.4%
Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier
About the same as England
East of England 2.9%England 1.7%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Median sale price
Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).
HM Land Registry
Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Change in median sale price over a year
Percentage change in the median between consecutive 12-month windows. Not mix-adjusted.
HM Land Registry
Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Method: Price paid medians

Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Education

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58
Schools in the area · Oct 2026
94.3%
Graded schools rated Good or Outstanding · 31 Aug 2026
3.1 percentage points higher than England
East of England 91.1%England 91.2%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Schools in the area
Open schools (excluding children's centres) with a postcode in the area.
Department for Education (Get Information about Schools) via WhatSchool data
Establishment records, pupil numbers, FSM, SEN, absence; Ofsted outcomes
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (DfE Get Information about Schools and Ofsted data, via WhatSchool)
Oct 2026Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Graded schools rated Good or Outstanding
Share of schools with a 1-4 Ofsted grade that are Outstanding or Good.
Department for Education (Get Information about Schools) via WhatSchool data
Establishment records, pupil numbers, FSM, SEN, absence; Ofsted outcomes
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (DfE Get Information about Schools and Ofsted data, via WhatSchool)
as at 31 Aug 2026Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
Method: Schools in an area

Each open school is located by the postcode of its GIAS record, so it belongs to exactly one postcode district, ward, built-up area, constituency, council and so on. A school is counted where it is, not where its pupils live; pupils often cross boundaries. Children's centres are excluded. Phase and type are the GIAS labels grouped for display.

Method: Pupil-weighted school measures

FSM, SEN and absence percentages are school-level figures averaged with school roll (January 2026 census) as the weight; KS2 and KS4 measures are averaged with the number of eligible pupils (KS2) or the KS4 cohort as the weight. This equals the share of pupils in the area's schools, not of pupils living in the area. The England value uses the same method on the same files and is the comparator. Suppressed school values are skipped, so coverage differs by measure (the number of schools used is in the notes). Ofsted outcomes are the latest overall grade on record at 31 August 2026; schools inspected under the new report-card framework may carry no single grade.

Economy

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£853
Median weekly pay, full-time employees living here · 2025
11% higher than England
East of England £805England £770
80,000
Jobs located in the area · 2024
Fewer jobs per head than England here 0.69
East of England 0.74England 0.77
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Median gross weekly pay, full-time employees living here
Median gross weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area (ASHE, place of residence). Cash terms, not inflation adjusted.
Office for National Statistics
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2025Thurrock (Council area)direct, high quality
Coefficient of variation 4.7%.
Jobs located in the area (BRES employment)
Employees plus working owners at workplaces in the area (BRES). Rounded; place of work, not residence.
Office for National Statistics
Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via Nomis
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2024Thurrock (Council area)direct, high quality
Rounded by ONS. Compared through jobs per working-age resident (2024): East of England 0.74, England 0.77, here 0.69.
Method: Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Method: Employment by industry (BRES)

BRES is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed industry and area. Employment is employees plus working owners, counted at the place of work and in the survey week in September. It covers all sectors except small farm agriculture, and the self-employed who are not registered for PAYE or VAT. ONS rounds BRES employment and suppresses small cells, so industry sums may not add to the total. Jobs here are not residents: people may live elsewhere. Part-time and full-time jobs count equally (they are not full-time equivalents).

Community

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88.3 per 1,000
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026
9% higher than England
East of England 67.9 per 1,000England 80.7 per 1,000
355
Charities registered here · Oct 2026
Fewer than England here 2 per 1,000
East of England 2.9 per 1,000England 2.7 per 1,000
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Recorded crime (excluding anti-social behaviour) per 1,000 residents
police.uk crime categories except anti-social behaviour, 12 months, per 1,000 residents.
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk
Street-level crime (12 monthly files)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Year to Apr 2026Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, high quality
12 months to April 2026. 1.4% of Essex Police records have no location and are excluded.
Charities based in the area
Registered charities whose registered address is in the area.
Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes)
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Oct 2026Thurrock (Council area)aggregated, medium quality
By registered address. Counts charities by their registered contact address (often a trustee or a head office), not where they work. England and Wales register only. Compared through charities based per 1,000 residents (Oct 2026): East of England 2.9 per 1,000, England 2.7 per 1,000, here 2 per 1,000.
Method: Recorded street crime per 1,000 residents

Counts of crimes in police.uk street-level data for May 2025 to April 2026, matched to 2021 LSOAs by the LSOA code on each record, then split to output areas by population and rolled up (see the area apportioning method). Rates are crimes per 1,000 residents (mid-2024 population) and describe where crimes were recorded, not who committed them or where victims live. High rates occur where many non-residents pass through (town centres, transport hubs, nightlife), so they are not a measure of risk to residents. Crimes with no location (blank LSOA) are excluded; the excluded share by force is in the notes. Greater Manchester Police data are absent from the extract, so those areas have no value. Categories follow police.uk. Anti-social behaviour is incident data, not crime proper, and is included only in the "all categories" rate. 12 months only: no trend is possible and seasonal effects are included.

Method: Charities in an area

A charity is placed by the postcode of its registered/contact address (or the nearest postcode to its geocoded address; some are placed by the nearest postcode to a geocoded address), so counts show where charities are based, not where they work: a national charity with a London address is counted in London. Income is the latest annual income on the register, summed; it is dominated by a few very large charities. "Declaring the area" counts charities that name the local authority (or its county) as an area of operation on the register; it does not mean services are delivered everywhere in that area. Registered charities only; unregistered community groups, small charities below the registration threshold and removed charities are not counted.

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  • A small part 55.4%
  • Some 16.8%
  • Much 26.7%
  • Not yet assessed 1.1%

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What stands out about this place?

Findings where this place differs most from its surroundings, with the evidence behind each one. A difference is not a verdict: it is a prompt to look closer.

Neighbourhoodsmedium confidence

Wide range between wards in Thurrock: Share of residents living in the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England (overall)

Share of residents living in the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England (overall) (2025) varies within Thurrock: from 0.0% in Aveley to 77.0% in Tilbury St Chads, across 20 wards. The upper tenth of wards is 50.6 percentage points above the lower tenth.

Tilbury St Chads figure

77% Tilbury St Chads0% Aveley
How do we know this?
Source
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (LSOA 2021 ranks and deciles) (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
2025
Geography
Ward, compared with lowest-value ward (Aveley)
Method
Summarising deprivation for an area. The Indices of Deprivation rank every LSOA in England; decile 1 contains the most deprived 10 per cent of LSOAs nationally. Ranks and deciles are ordinal, so they are never averaged. An area is described by (1) how many of its LSOAs fall in each national decile, (2) how many of its residents live in LSOAs of each decile (mid-2024 population apportioned to output areas, see the area apportioning method), (3) the share of residents in the most deprived 10 and 20 per cent of LSOAs nationally, and (4) the median decile of residents. IoD is a relative measure of small areas, not of individuals: most people in a deprived LSOA are not deprived and many deprived people live elsewhere. England only. Where an area straddles the England-Wales border the figures cover the English part only and are not published unless 90 per cent of residents are covered.
Limitations
  • This figure is an estimate; see the methodology.
  • Ward and neighbourhood boundaries differ in size; the range shows variation within the area, not a ranking of places.
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Economymedium confidence

Higher than England: Change in jobs located in the area over five years

Change in jobs located in the area over five years is 17.6% in Thurrock (2019..2024), compared with 4.7% in England (13.0 percentage points higher).

17.6% here4.7% England
How do we know this?
Source
Office for National Statistics: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via Nomis (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
2019..2024
Geography
Council area, compared with England
Method
Employment by industry (BRES). BRES is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed industry and area. Employment is employees plus working owners, counted at the place of work and in the survey week in September. It covers all sectors except small farm agriculture, and the self-employed who are not registered for PAYE or VAT. ONS rounds BRES employment and suppresses small cells, so industry sums may not add to the total. Jobs here are not residents: people may live elsewhere. Part-time and full-time jobs count equally (they are not full-time equivalents).
Limitations
  • Rounded inputs; the 2020 to 2021 pandemic years lie inside this window.
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Economymedium confidence

Larger share in "Transportation and storage": Enterprises by industry (SIC section)

In the breakdown "Enterprises by industry (SIC section)" (2026), "Transportation and storage" makes up 15.9% in Thurrock, compared with 4.3% in England.

15.9% here4.3% England
How do we know this?
Source
not recorded
Period
2026
Geography
Council area, compared with England
Method
Business counts. UK Business Counts count businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE on the ONS Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) at a March snapshot. An enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units with a degree of autonomy; a local unit is a single site of an enterprise, counted where the site is. Businesses below the VAT threshold and not running PAYE (many sole traders) are not included, so counts understate the smallest businesses. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5. Enterprises are placed in an area by where their head office or main site is registered with HMRC, which for multi-site firms may not be where staff work: local units are the better guide to where businesses operate. Size bands are by employment (employees plus working proprietors). Industry is the SIC 2007 section of the main activity.
Limitations
none recorded
See Economy
Homeshigh confidence

Increase between Aug 2024 and Aug 2026: Average monthly private rent

Average monthly private rent in Thurrock went from £1,228 (Aug 2024) to £1,380 (Aug 2026): up 12% (not adjusted for inflation), compared with up 9.9% in England.

£1,380 here£1,228 same place, Aug 2024
How do we know this?
Source
Office for National Statistics: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
Aug 2026
Geography
Council area, compared with same place, Aug 2024
Method
Private rents (PIPR). The ONS Price Index of Private Rents measures the change in rents paid by private tenants, and publishes an average (mean) monthly rent per local authority from the same data. The figure is a mean, not a median, so a few very high rents pull it up, especially in London and where there are few lettings. It covers rents paid for homes let on the private market (not social rents) and reflects all tenancies in the stock, not only new lets, except in Scotland where the underlying data are mainly advertised new lets, which makes Scotland not directly comparable with England and Wales. Annual change is the change in the rental price index, not in the cash average. Rents are in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation. Averages by number of bedrooms are held for the latest month only.
Limitations
  • Mean, not median.
  • Prices are nominal and not adjusted for inflation or for changes in the mix of homes sold.
See Living here
Neighbourhoodshigh confidence

Lower than England: Share of residents living in the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England, judged on the local living environment (housing quality, air quality, road safety)

Share of residents living in the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England, judged on the local living environment (housing quality, air quality, road safety) is 2.4% in Thurrock (2025), compared with 20.4% in England (18.0 percentage points lower; n = 180,989).

2.4% here20.4% England
How do we know this?
Source
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (LSOA 2021 ranks and deciles) (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
2025
Geography
Council area, compared with England
Method
Summarising deprivation for an area. The Indices of Deprivation rank every LSOA in England; decile 1 contains the most deprived 10 per cent of LSOAs nationally. Ranks and deciles are ordinal, so they are never averaged. An area is described by (1) how many of its LSOAs fall in each national decile, (2) how many of its residents live in LSOAs of each decile (mid-2024 population apportioned to output areas, see the area apportioning method), (3) the share of residents in the most deprived 10 and 20 per cent of LSOAs nationally, and (4) the median decile of residents. IoD is a relative measure of small areas, not of individuals: most people in a deprived LSOA are not deprived and many deprived people live elsewhere. England only. Where an area straddles the England-Wales border the figures cover the English part only and are not published unless 90 per cent of residents are covered.
Limitations
none recorded
See Living here
Peoplehigh confidence

Lower than England: Residents aged 65 and over

Residents aged 65 and over is 13.6% in Thurrock (2024), compared with 18.7% in England (5.2 percentage points lower; n = 180,989).

13.6% here18.7% England
How do we know this?
Source
Office for National Statistics: Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
2024
Geography
Council area, compared with England
Method
Mid-year population estimates. ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.
Limitations
none recorded
See Living here

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