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Bromley Cross

Bromley Cross is a village in Essex, England, with a population of around 1,100. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 1 bus stop, and the nearest railway station is Manningtree, 5.5 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Bromley Cross area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Tendring area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 148,291 residents at roughly 441 people per km².

Council
Tendring
County
Essex
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex
Police force
Essex
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°COvercast

  • Today: 24° / 14° · 21% rain
  • Tomorrow: 24° / 17° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:24Sunset 19:20

12h 56m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

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

21 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 19 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Manningtree (5.5 km)
  • 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Manningtree (5.5 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 (6.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 147.8p · AppleGreen (6.5 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

40 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Haddocks Colchester-Hyundai (3.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches3

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
  • 12 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

  • Parks & greens1
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,505 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

47 jobs advertised · £37,838 avg

e.g. EXPERIENCED CROUPIER £27.311 TIPS* (SEE BELOW) BONUS BENEFITS, Online Biology Tutoring Job in Bromley Cross – Flexible Schedule, Maintenance Engineer (Electrical)

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 Harwich and North Essex:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Ardleigh Gravel Pit · 1.4 km

    Ardleigh Gravel Pit is a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Ardleigh in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

  • Harwich and North Essex · 1.9 km

    Harwich and North Essex is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Bernard Jenkin of the Conservative Party since its creation in 2010. Jenkin had previously been MP for the predeces…

  • Great Bromley · 2.0 km

    Great Bromley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It lies 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Manningtree and 9 kilometres (6 mi) east of Colchester and includes the hamlets of Balls Gre…

  • Ardleigh railway station · 2.1 km

    Ardleigh railway station served the village of Ardleigh in Essex, England. The station was situated on the Great Eastern Main Line.

  • St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Bromley · 2.5 km

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is a former Anglican church near the village of Little Bromley, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is un…

  • Ardleigh · 2.6 km

    Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and 26 miles (42 km) northeast from the county tow…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Bromley Cross?
Bromley Cross is a town in Essex, England, in the Tendring local authority.
How deprived is Bromley Cross?
The Tendring local authority, which includes Bromley Cross, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.