Low Street is one of those Thurrock hamlets you drive through rather than to — a scatter of houses off a country road, the kind of place that shows up on a map more confidently than it shows up on the ground. There's no high street to speak of despite the name, no parade of shops setting the tone, and that absence is the tone: quiet, low-density, a place people choose because it isn't somewhere else.
I'll be straight with you: there isn't a working set of figures for Low Street itself here — no crime count, no school list, no transport data specific to this hamlet — which for a place this size isn't unusual. What exists instead is the wider frame it sits inside. Thurrock's typical house price runs to £350,000, close to the national median of £281,000 uplifted, and just under the East of England average of £381,000, so this corner of the region reads as neither cheap nor a stretch — solidly middling. Whether Low Street itself trades above or below that will come down to the individual house and the individual road, not the hamlet as a whole.
What I can tell you is the shape of the county it belongs to. Thurrock's crime rate sits around 102 per 1,000 residents, a figure worth weighing against wherever you're moving from rather than treated as a verdict — hamlets like this typically see far less of it in practice simply by being small and off the beaten track. Beyond that, I'd be guessing, and I'd rather tell you plainly that the detail isn't there than dress up a postcode-level picture from county-wide averages.
If you're drawn to Low Street, it's likely for what it visibly is rather than what any dataset says: a rural, low-density spot in Thurrock, priced in the same range as its neighbours, without the infrastructure of a town around it. Worth a visit before anything else — this is a place you judge with your own eyes, not a spreadsheet.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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