Chester
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Chester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chester 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 17% of people in Chester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chester at a rate of 100.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 850 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,282), other crime (2,140) and shoplifting (987).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chester was 99.1 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 Chester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chester has no single figure. Of its 58 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 13 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chester
Your MP
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston
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 Chester4
Middle areas in Chester11
Towns near Chester6
Chester in brief
Chester is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 96,590 people lived in Chester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £257,500 in 2025 across 1,496 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chester was £257,500 in 2025.
Chester had 92,756 usual residents at the census.
About 17% of people in Chester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chester, 84.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.