Ceremonial county

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county made up of 14 local authorities. Its boundary comes from Ordnance Survey's 2015 edition of Boundary-Line, and each local authority counts as a member of the county holding most of its area. It has no official code.

Its local authorities today. Select one to open its page.

Local authorities

Former members

Wards

257 wards, by local authority.

Basildon 14

Braintree 26

Brentwood 13

Castle Point 13

Chelmsford 24

Colchester 17

Epping Forest 18

Harlow 11

Maldon 17

Rochford 13

Southend-on-Sea 17

Tendring 32

Thurrock 20

Uttlesford 22

Data for it

See every map of Essex, with its councils, wards or constituencies coloured by the Atlas's datasets.

Ask the API

The API holds Essex as a named location, with each member dated, so you can add up data over it or list the areas inside it.

  • The place and its definitionDocs
    GET/v1/locations/essex
  • Its member councilsDocs
    GET/v1/locations/essex/members