Chineham
WardEast Basingstoke and Deane. About 11,368 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 21% of people in Chineham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chineham compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chineham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chineham at a rate of 45.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 69.7 per 1,000 people across Basingstoke and Deane.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 40 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chineham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (180), anti-social behaviour (88) and other crime (82).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Basingstoke and Deane
These figures are published for the whole of Basingstoke and Deane, not for each ward, so they describe all of Basingstoke and Deane and not Chineham alone. See Basingstoke and Deane
Chineham in brief
Chineham had 10,848 usual residents at the census.
About 21% of people in Chineham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chineham, 88.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Chineham, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.