The Witterings
WardSouth west Chichester. About 10,305 people in 28 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 58% of people in The Witterings live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How The Witterings compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is The Witterings safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in The Witterings at a rate of 51.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.3 per 1,000 people across Chichester.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 54 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in The Witterings.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (179), anti-social behaviour (145) and other crime (100).
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 Chichester
These figures are published for the whole of Chichester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Chichester and not The Witterings alone. See Chichester
The Witterings in brief
The Witterings had 10,322 usual residents at the census.
About 58% of people in The Witterings live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In The Witterings, 81.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In The Witterings, 3.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.