The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation in England. It is part of the Indices of Deprivation (IoD), which look at different aspects of disadvantage. IMD uses a well-established method to define deprivation broadly, covering many areas of life such as income, employment, health, education, housing, and living environment. The IMD 2025 initial report highlights...
Safer Essex is the statutory county-wide Strategy Group for community safety, bringing together partners from across Essex, Southend, and Thurrock to coordinate the partnership response to community safety issues. Each District/City/Borough/Unitary council area in Essex also has its own Community Safety Partnership. Every year, Community Safety Partnerships are required to carry out an assessment of crime and anti-social behaviour in the...
Childhood in Essex The world children and young people are growing up in today has substantially changed from the childhood of previous generations. As such, it’s important for decision makers to put themselves in the shoes of current children and young people, to understand the new opportunities and challenges that they face - as the decisions made now will shape their...
The JSNA Greater Essex Profiles offer a high-level overview of health for each lower-tier local authority in Greater Essex. They pull together existing information and data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality. These reports should be used alongside the comprehensive suite of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) dashboards. These documents...
The dashboard below provides the latest available data for local authorities in Essex*. This is drawn from official sources such as Government statistics, the Office for National Statistics and Nomis. Data is summarised into the following topics: Business, Economy and Industry Climate, Environment and Land Community Safety Education, Skills and Learning Community Information and Demographics ...
The Strategic Hate Crime Prevention Partnership (SHCPP) works to combat all forms of hate incidents by developing a consistent, multi-agency response, which meets the needs of victims, takes firm action against perpetrators and seeks to prevent such incidents from occurring thus delivering the best possible outcomes for all the people of Greater Essex. In 2024, research was carried out on...
The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act places a duty on Essex County Council, as a Tier 1 Local Authority, to provide support to victims of domestic abuse. As part of its statutory duties, Essex County Council needs to produce a Domestic Abuse Commissioning Strategy, which sets out the objectives of the local authority and actions the local authority will take towards achieving...
Safer Essex is the statutory county-wide Strategy Group for community safety, bringing together partners from across Essex, Southend and Thurrock to co-ordinate the partnership response to community safety issues. Each District/City/Borough/Unitary council area in Essex also has its own Community Safety Partnership. Every year, Community Safety Partnerships are required to carry out an assessment of crime and anti social behaviour in...
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With just over 6,500 residents responding to the 2023 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within...
Historic trend data for juveniles and adults entering the criminal justice system, filtered to Essex. Published by the Ministry of Justice, Criminal justice statistics quarterly. Data exported from the Research and statistics section of the Justice system transparency portal.
