East Chesterton
WardNorth east Cambridge. About 9,998 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in East Chesterton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How East Chesterton compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is East Chesterton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in East Chesterton at a rate of 132.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 110.7 per 1,000 people across Cambridge.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 141 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in East Chesterton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (387), anti-social behaviour (235) and other crime (233).
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 Cambridge
These figures are published for the whole of Cambridge, not for each ward, so they describe all of Cambridge and not East Chesterton alone. See Cambridge
East Chesterton in brief
East Chesterton had 9,715 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in East Chesterton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In East Chesterton, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In East Chesterton, 2.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.