Chesterfield
TownTown in Chesterfield, East Midlands.
Chesterfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chesterfield 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 92% of people in Chesterfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chesterfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chesterfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chesterfield at a rate of 133.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 954 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chesterfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,247), other crime (1,795) and anti-social behaviour (1,636).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chesterfield was 127.9 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 Chesterfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chesterfield has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 14 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chesterfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterfield 001A | 1,265 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Chesterfield 001B | 1,465 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Chesterfield 001C | 1,332 | 104.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.7% |
| Chesterfield 001D | 1,559 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.4% |
| Chesterfield 001E | 1,293 | 159.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.0% |
| Chesterfield 003B | 1,419 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Chesterfield 004A | 1,513 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Chesterfield 004B | 1,577 | 180.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 78.1% |
| Chesterfield 004C | 1,859 | 127.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.8% |
| Chesterfield 004D | 1,545 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| Chesterfield 004E | 1,511 | 106.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Chesterfield 005B | 1,328 | 147.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.3% |
| Chesterfield 007A | 1,636 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Chesterfield 007B | 1,496 | 373.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.8% |
| Chesterfield 007C | 1,284 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Chesterfield 007D | 1,638 | 150.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Chesterfield 007E | 1,335 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.4% |
| Chesterfield 008A | 1,501 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.8% |
| Chesterfield 008B | 1,275 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
| Chesterfield 008C | 1,069 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Chesterfield 008D | 1,337 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.2% |
| Chesterfield 008E | 1,210 | 213.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 38.6% |
| Chesterfield 008F | 1,193 | 109.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Chesterfield 009A | 1,564 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| Chesterfield 009B | 1,413 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Chesterfield 009C | 1,453 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| Chesterfield 009D | 1,796 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Chesterfield 009E | 1,513 | 64.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Chesterfield 010A | 1,982 | 197.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.1% |
| Chesterfield 010B | 1,329 | 123.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.1% |
| Chesterfield 010C | 1,491 | 176.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.4% |
| Chesterfield 010D | 1,857 | 170.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.6% |
| Chesterfield 010F | 1,190 | 1,596.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 53.3% |
| Chesterfield 010G | 1,734 | 227.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Chesterfield 011A | 1,313 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Chesterfield 011B | 1,386 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.3% |
| Chesterfield 011C | 1,331 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Chesterfield 011D | 1,302 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Chesterfield 011E | 1,665 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Chesterfield 011F | 1,110 | 10.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Chesterfield 012A | 1,322 | 119.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.8% |
| Chesterfield 012B | 1,388 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.1% |
| Chesterfield 012C | 1,371 | 134.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Chesterfield 012D | 2,210 | 90.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.3% |
| Chesterfield 012E | 1,477 | 57.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| Chesterfield 012F | 1,374 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.3% |
| Chesterfield 012G | 2,273 | 135.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.3% |
| Chesterfield 013A | 1,657 | 98.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Chesterfield 013B | 1,606 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Chesterfield 013C | 1,493 | 165.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.8% |
| Chesterfield 013D | 1,546 | 248.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.3% |
Your MP
- Mr Toby PerkinsLabourMP for Chesterfield
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Chesterfield4
Middle areas in Chesterfield9
Towns near Chesterfield6
Chesterfield in brief
Chesterfield is a town in Chesterfield, East Midlands.
About 78,293 people lived in Chesterfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £208,000 in 2025 across 1,169 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 133.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chesterfield was £208,000 in 2025.
Chesterfield had 76,394 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Chesterfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chesterfield, 90.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.