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Haverhill

Haverhill is a town in Essex, England, with a population of around 27,041. It has 1 GP surgery, 5 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, and around 11 restaurants and cafés, with 15 bus stops. The average sold house price is around £305,529, and there were around 168 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Haverhill area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Braintree area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 155,270 residents at roughly 254 people per km².

Council
Braintree
County
Essex
Constituency
Braintree
Police force
Essex
59/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 91st of 294 English council areas — better than 69% of them.

Low crime69
Home affordability37
Affordable rents39
Good schools62
Life expectancy50
Low deprivation55
Employment64
Low council tax85

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

10°COvercast

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 46% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:26

9h 29m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stanford-le-Hope Roadside, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

129 reported · August 2026▼ 17% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences53
  • Criminal damage & arson21
  • Anti-social behaviour14
  • Public order13

Neighbourhood team: Haverhill Town - South and East · Suffolk

Local policing priorities

  • Working with partner agencies and community groups to target antisocial behaviour, criminality and littering along the former railway line.
  • Drug dealing in the town centre, Chalkstone Estate/Clements Estate

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

Road safety

228 reported road collisions (2025)

77 killed or seriously injured · 283 casualties · 14.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

131 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 111 rated 4–5 ★ (102 top)
  • 10 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 68 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Dullingham (14.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£330,089 average▲ 1.6% YoY

Across Braintree · to 2026-08

Detached£566,447
Semi-detached£342,100
Terraced£275,503
Flat£157,615

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,213 average monthly rent▲ 2% YoY

  • 1 bed £850
  • 2 bed £1,099
  • 3 bed £1,354

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

9.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.2 times median annual pay (10.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,224 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

EV charging

4 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Ehringshausen Way Car Park (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Gyms1
  • Sports pitches22
  • Playgrounds15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

155,270 residents in Braintree · 254/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,408
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,406
  • Net moves+2,002

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 164 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,280 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (29% of 71,120)

A £1,520
B £1,774
C £2,027
D £2,280
E £2,787
F £3,294
G £3,801
H £4,561

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

Schools

68 schools · 21,326 pupils

52 primary · 8 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 30 of 33 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Honywood SchoolGood
  • Lift MaltingsRequires improvement
  • Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormRequires improvement
  • Tabor AcademyRequires improvement
  • Alec Hunter Academy
  • Hedingham School and Sixth Form
  • Lift New Rickstones
  • The Ramsey Academy, Halstead

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Braintree

Care & health services

1,574 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes408
  • GP practices229
  • Dentists312
  • Homecare agencies474
  • Hospitals & hospices40

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 17 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Essex

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Haverhill Queen Street)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 33 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

238 applications decided

81.9% granted · 195 granted, 43 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Nick Timothy

Conservative

West Suffolk

Recent votes:

  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 21

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 9
  • Con 30
  • Grn 4
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 5

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools12
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies5
  • Supermarkets4
  • Parks & greens26
  • Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,625 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

181 jobs advertised · £36,796 avg

e.g. Primary School Teacher, Production Operative, Support Manager - Theater Venues

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£826 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,019 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 68,719 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

80% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Gas 19% · Nuclear 19% · Biomass 9%

85 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.9 yrs women · 80.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Essex): 62.4 women · 62.7 men

75% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Health services

2 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in CB9

  • Unity Healthcare
  • Haverhill Family Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in West Suffolk:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Haverhill Arts Centre · 0.2 km

    Haverhill Arts Centre, formerly Haverhill Town Hall, is a former municipal building in the High Street in Haverhill, Suffolk, a town in England. The building, which is currently used as an events centre, is a Grade…

  • Haverhill, Suffolk · 0.3 km

    Haverhill is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. It lies about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Cambridge and 4…

  • Haverhill railway station (England) · 0.4 km

    Haverhill railway station was a station in Haverhill, Suffolk, on the Stour Valley Railway, which opened in 1865 and closed in 1967. It was sometimes known as Haverhill North because of a separate station in the town…

  • Corn Exchange, Haverhill · 0.4 km

    The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in Withersfield Road in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. The structure, which is currently vacant and deteriorating, is a Grade II listed building.

  • Haverhill South railway station · 0.4 km

    Haverhill South railway station was located in Haverhill, Suffolk. It was a terminus on the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway.

  • Haverhill Borough F.C. · 0.8 km

    Haverhill Borough Football Club is a football club based in Haverhill in England. They play at the New Croft.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Haverhill?
Haverhill is a town in Essex, England, in the Braintree local authority.
What is the population of Haverhill?
Haverhill has an approximate settlement population of 27,041.
How deprived is Haverhill?
The Braintree local authority, which includes Haverhill, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.