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Tendring

Tendring is a town or village in Essex, England. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 3 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Weeley, 1.7 km away. There were around 11 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. Covers 32 towns with local open-data for the whole authority.

On deprivation, Tendring is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). It is home to around 148,291 residents at roughly 441 people per km².

42/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 215th of 294 English council areas — better than 27% of them.

Low crime43
Home affordability54
Affordable rents53
Good schools38
Life expectancy27
Low deprivation10
Employment29
Low council tax87

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

18°CPartly Cloudy

  • Today: 21° / 17° · 17% rain
  • Tomorrow: 20° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:23Sunset 19:19

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Crime

10 reported · July 2026 52% YoY

  • Vehicle crime3
  • Violence & sexual offences3
  • Anti-social behaviour2
  • Bicycle theft1

Neighbourhood team: Harwich and Manningtree · Essex

Local policing priorities

  • Concerns from residents about Anti-Social behaviour in key hotspot locations including Clacton town centre retail areas and seafront (Pie…
  • Concerns about vehicle offending across hotspots including Clacton, Jaywick, Harwich, Walton and Frinton seafront areas, and key road net…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

199 reported road collisions (2024)

54 killed or seriously injured · 270 casualties · 13.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

27 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 26 rated 4–5 ★ (19 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

3 active warnings & alerts

  • Flood alert: The tidal Deben estuary
  • Flood alert: The Suffolk and Essex coast from Felixstowe to Clacton including Orwell and Stour estuaries
  • Flood alert: The Essex coast from Clacton to and including, St Peters Flat and the Colne and Blackwater estuaries

Source: Environment Agency

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Weeley (1.7 km)
  • 3 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Weeley (1.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£261,717 average 2.6% YoY

Across Tendring · to 2026-06

Detached£371,783
Semi-detached£255,595
Terraced£203,073
Flat£131,855

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,051 average monthly rent 4.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £757
  • 2 bed £972
  • 3 bed £1,182

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 139.8p · AppleGreen (3.1 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (3.1 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

9 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Lifehouse (3.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools3
  • Sports pitches6
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

148,291 residents in Tendring · 441/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 55%
  • 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 32 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

18% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,270 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (29% of 75,690)

A £1,513
B £1,765
C £2,017
D £2,270
E £2,774
F £3,278
G £3,783
H £4,539

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

51 schools · 19,335 pupils

39 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 24 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

47inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Colne Community SchoolGood
  • Harwich and Dovercourt High SchoolGood
  • Lift ClactonGood
  • Lift TendringGood
  • Clacton County High School
  • Manningtree High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tendring

Care & health services

1,571 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes407
  • GP practices230
  • Dentists309
  • Homecare agencies475
  • Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 20 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

199 applications decided

83.9% granted · 167 granted, 32 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Council control

Independent / Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

  • Lab 7
  • Con 13
  • LD 4
  • Ref 7
  • Oth 17

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens10
  • Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,505 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

68 jobs advertised · £39,619 avg

e.g. Assistant Manager, Blinds and Curtains Installer, Telecoms Fibre engineer

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£734 median full-time weekly pay

4.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,182 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

36% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 77,907 certificates

12.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Health

Life expectancy: 82.7 yrs women · 78.7 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.5
  • Happiness yesterday7.1
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Clacton:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Tendring · 0.8 km

    Tendring is a village and civil parish in Essex. It gives its name to the Tendring District and before that Tendring Rural District and before that the Tendring Hundred. Its name was given to the larger groupings beca…

  • Tendring Rural District · 1.0 km

    Tendring Rural District was a rural district in Essex, England, from 1894 to 1974, covering a coastal area in the north-east of the county. It was replaced in 1974 with the similarly named but larger Tendring District.

  • Weeley · 1.0 km

    Weeley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is served by Weeley railway station on the Sunshine Coast Line. It has bus links to Clacton-on-Sea and Colchester. At the 2021 census…

  • Weeley railway station · 1.7 km

    Weeley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Weeley, Essex. It is 62 miles 78 chains (101.3 km) down the line from Londo…

  • Weeleyhall Wood · 2.7 km

    Weeleyhall Wood is a 31 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

  • Comarques, Thorpe-le-Soken · 2.7 km

    Comarques is an 18th-century country house in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England. It has been attributed to the architect, Sir Robert Taylor. Named after Captain Comarque, a Huguenot refugee who owned the estate in the e…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)