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Langford (Maldon)

Langford (Maldon) is a village in Essex, England. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 8 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Hatfield Peverel, 5.3 km away. There were around 3 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 Langford (Maldon) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Maldon area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 66,209 residents at roughly 185 people per km².

Council
Maldon
County
Essex
Constituency
Witham
Police force
Essex
61/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 70th of 294 English council areas — better than 76% of them.

Low crime92
Home affordability17
Affordable rents36
Good schools45
Life expectancy67
Low deprivation66
Employment68
Low council tax76

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

20°CLight rain shower

  • Today: 23° / 17° · 75% rain
  • Tomorrow: 25° / 15° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:27Sunset 19:19

12h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

90 reported road collisions (2024)

25 killed or seriously injured · 121 casualties · 13.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

155 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 133 rated 4–5 ★ (126 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

1 active warning/alert

  • 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: Hatfield Peverel (5.3 km)
  • 8 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Hatfield Peverel (5.2 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£384,348 average 0.4% YoY

Across Maldon · to 2026-06

Detached£563,125
Semi-detached£347,354
Terraced£273,936
Flat£170,356

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,143 average monthly rent 4.4% YoY

  • 1 bed £800
  • 2 bed £1,037
  • 3 bed £1,250

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

Affordability

11.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.1 times median annual pay (10.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 163.7p · Asda (12 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (12 km)

9 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: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Tesco Extra-Maldon (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

66,209 residents in Maldon · 185/km²

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 59%
  • 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 211 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,328 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 30,520)

A £1,552
B £1,811
C £2,070
D £2,328
E £2,846
F £3,363
G £3,881
H £4,657

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

Schools

23 schools · 7,382 pupils

19 primary · 2 secondary · 2 other

Ofsted: 7 of 8 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

22inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Plume SchoolGood
  • Ormiston Rivers Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Maldon

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

  • In a conservation area (Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 55 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

134 applications decided

86.6% granted · 116 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Council control

Conservative (minority)

  • Lab 1
  • Con 10
  • LD 6
  • Ref 2
  • Oth 12

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

Amenities nearby

  • Parks & greens6
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

3,710 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£820 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,757 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 29,311 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 84.6 yrs women · 81.1 yrs men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.4
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Witham:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Museum of Power · 0.3 km

    The Museum of Power is located in the former Southend Waterworks Langford Pumping Station in Langford, Essex, England. It is on the B1019, on the main road from Maldon to Hatfield Peverel.

  • River Blackwater, Essex · 0.7 km

    The River Blackwater is a river in Essex, England. It rises as the River Pant in the northwest of the county, just east of Saffron Walden, and flows in a generally southeast direction to Bocking, near Braintree, via G…

  • Langford, Essex · 0.7 km

    Langford is a village and civil parish at the west end of the Dengie peninsula close to Maldon in the English county of Essex. It is part of the Wickham Bishops and Woodham ward of the Maldon district. At the 2021 cen…

  • Langford and Ulting railway station · 1.1 km

    Langford and Ulting railway station served the village of Langford, Essex. It was opened in 1848 by the Maldon, Witham & Braintree Railway (MWBR) on a branch line from Witham to Maldon East and Heybridge.

  • Beeleigh Abbey · 1.5 km

    Beeleigh Abbey near Maldon in Essex, England, was a monastery constructed in 1180 for the Premonstratensians, as known as the Norbertines or Premonstratensians. The order linked the change of the separate life of monk…

  • St Peter's Church, Wickham Bishops · 2.3 km

    St Peter's Church is a redundant church in the village of Wickham Bishops, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is cared for by the Fr…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Langford (Maldon)?
Langford (Maldon) is a town in Essex, England, in the Maldon local authority.
How deprived is Langford (Maldon)?
The Maldon local authority, which includes Langford (Maldon), is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.