Chester-le-Street
TownTown in County Durham, North East.
Chester-le-Street is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chester-le-Street 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 58% of people in Chester-le-Street live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chester-le-Street compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chester-le-Street safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chester-le-Street at a rate of 112.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 115.6 per 1,000 people across North East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 259 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chester-le-Street.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (859), anti-social behaviour (489) and other crime (415).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chester-le-Street was 111.5 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-le-Street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chester-le-Street has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chester-le-Street
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Durham 007A | 1,583 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 007B | 1,391 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 007C | 1,676 | 179.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.4% |
| County Durham 007D | 1,809 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.2% |
| County Durham 007E | 1,501 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 73.6% |
| County Durham 011A | 1,504 | 196.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 011B | 1,212 | 456.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.6% |
| County Durham 011C | 1,709 | 115.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.4% |
| County Durham 011D | 1,384 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| County Durham 011E | 1,877 | 105.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.1% |
| County Durham 013A | 1,518 | 161.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| County Durham 013B | 1,669 | 142.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| County Durham 013C | 1,435 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| County Durham 013D | 1,638 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| County Durham 013E | 1,642 | 19.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Luke AkehurstLabourMP for North Durham
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 Chester-le-Street2
Middle areas in Chester-le-Street3
Towns near Chester-le-Street6
Chester-le-Street in brief
Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham, North East.
About 24,143 people lived in Chester-le-Street in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £167,000 in 2025 across 379 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 112.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chester-le-Street was £167,000 in 2025.
Chester-le-Street had 23,554 usual residents at the census.
About 58% of people in Chester-le-Street live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chester-le-Street, 93.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.