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Cheadle

Town

Town in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.

Cheadle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cheadle 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 26% of people in Cheadle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£219,500
313th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
11,403
317th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
26%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
85.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Cheadle compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

CheadleMiddle
Median sale price88 towns, West Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in West Midlands88 areas from £163,000 to £560,000. The middle area is £249,000. Cheadle is £219,500.
£219,50020th cheapest
Population88 towns, West Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 7,552 to 1,121,367. The middle area is 26,281. Cheadle is 11,403.
11,40320th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares88 towns, West Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 54.5%. Cheadle is 26.0%.
26%joint 23rd fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage88 towns, West Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in West Midlands88 areas from 77.4% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.4%. Cheadle is 85.0%.
85.0%3rd lowest

Is Cheadle safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cheadle at a rate of 83.7 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 93.4 per 1,000 people across West Midlands.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 93 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cheadle.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (435), other crime (209) and anti-social behaviour (155).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cheadle was 69.9 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 Cheadle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cheadle has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Cheadle

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Staffordshire Moorlands 010B1,97377.1 per 1,000381.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands 011A1,42530.7 per 1,000897.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands 011B1,448143.2 per 1,000393.6%
Staffordshire Moorlands 011C1,38460.1 per 1,000960.9%
Staffordshire Moorlands 011D1,929192.2 per 1,000473.3%
Staffordshire Moorlands 013A2,10233.7 per 1,000983.2%
Staffordshire Moorlands 013B1,76344.9 per 1,0001084.3%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Cheadle1

Middle areas in Cheadle1

Towns near Cheadle6

Cheadle in brief

Cheadle is a town in Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands.

About 11,823 people lived in Cheadle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £219,500 in 2025 across 238 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Cheadle was £219,500 in 2025.

Cheadle had 11,403 usual residents at the census.

About 26% of people in Cheadle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Cheadle, 85.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.