Chepstow
TownTown in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Chepstow is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chepstow 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 100% of people in Chepstow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chepstow compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chepstow safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chepstow at a rate of 102.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 150 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chepstow.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (375), other crime (241) and shoplifting (214).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chepstow was 91.2 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 Chepstow, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chepstow has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Chepstow
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouthshire 007C | 1,281 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.7% |
| Monmouthshire 007D | 2,482 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| Monmouthshire 008A | 1,277 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Monmouthshire 008B | 1,759 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Monmouthshire 008C | 1,878 | 272.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.4% |
| Monmouthshire 008D | 1,627 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.7% |
| Monmouthshire 008E | 1,632 | 51.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Catherine FookesLabourMP for Monmouthshire
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 Chepstow1
Middle areas in Chepstow1
Towns near Chepstow6
Chepstow in brief
Chepstow is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales.
About 12,561 people lived in Chepstow in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 211 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 102.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chepstow was £300,000 in 2025.
Chepstow had 11,939 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chepstow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chepstow, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.