Chatteris
TownTown in Fenland, East of England.
Chatteris is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chatteris add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 19% of people in Chatteris live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chatteris compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chatteris safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chatteris at a rate of 74.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chatteris.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (317), anti-social behaviour (225) and other crime (104).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chatteris was 67.0 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Chatteris, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chatteris has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chatteris
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenland 011A | 2,645 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.7% |
| Fenland 011C | 1,194 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Fenland 011D | 1,591 | 40.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Fenland 011E | 2,702 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.3% |
| Fenland 011F | 1,743 | 136.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.3% |
| Fenland 011G | 1,312 | 106.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.9% |
Your MP
- Steve BarclayConservativeMP for North East Cambridgeshire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Chatteris1
Middle areas in Chatteris1
Towns near Chatteris6
Chatteris in brief
Chatteris is a town in Fenland, East of England.
About 10,993 people lived in Chatteris in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £236,000 in 2025 across 210 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chatteris was £236,000 in 2025.
Chatteris had 11,022 usual residents at the census.
About 19% of people in Chatteris live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chatteris, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.