Chorley East
WardSouth east Chorley. About 8,756 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Chorley East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chorley East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chorley East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chorley East at a rate of 112.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 77.8 per 1,000 people across Chorley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 83 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chorley East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (391), anti-social behaviour (228) and other crime (173).
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 Chorley
These figures are published for the whole of Chorley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Chorley and not Chorley East alone. See Chorley
Chorley East in brief
Chorley East had 8,467 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chorley East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chorley East, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Chorley East, 4.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.