Chichester
TownTown in Chichester, South East.
Chichester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chichester 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 Chichester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chichester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chichester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chichester at a rate of 159.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 522 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chichester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,480), anti-social behaviour (1,319) and other crime (940).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chichester was 140.3 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 Chichester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chichester has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chichester
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chichester 006B | 1,513 | 23.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| Chichester 006C | 1,524 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.0% |
| Chichester 008A | 1,539 | 223.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Chichester 008B | 2,383 | 235.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Chichester 008C | 1,843 | 287.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 62.0% |
| Chichester 008E | 1,672 | 157.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Chichester 008F | 1,477 | 63.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| Chichester 008G | 1,585 | 148.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.1% |
| Chichester 008H | 1,802 | 106.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.2% |
| Chichester 010A | 1,316 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Chichester 010B | 1,551 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Chichester 010C | 1,828 | 133.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.7% |
| Chichester 010D | 2,370 | 749.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 45.0% |
| Chichester 010E | 1,842 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.1% |
| Chichester 011B | 1,807 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.2% |
| Chichester 011C | 2,653 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.7% |
| Chichester 012A | 1,519 | 33.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Chichester 012B | 1,837 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Jess Brown-FullerLiberal DemocratMP for Chichester
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 Chichester1
Middle areas in Chichester2
Towns near Chichester6
Chichester in brief
Chichester is a town in Chichester, South East.
About 34,202 people lived in Chichester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £385,000 in 2025 across 494 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 159.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chichester was £385,000 in 2025.
Chichester had 31,709 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chichester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chichester, 86.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.