This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Essex, England.
Parts of the former Basildon Urban District, Braintree and Bocking Urban District, Brentwood Urban District, Colchester Municipal Borough, Chelmsford Municipal Borough and Southend-on-Sea County Borough are also unparished.
Population figures are not available for some of the smallest parishes.
*Salcott, Virley, Peldon, Great and Little Wigborough are governed by the joint Winstred Hundred Parish Council.
The three parishes of Heydon, Great Chishill and Little Chishill were formerly in Essex, they were transferred to Cambridgeshire in boundary changes in 1895.