Christchurch
TownTown in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West.
Christchurch is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Christchurch 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 1% of people in Christchurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Christchurch compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Christchurch safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Christchurch at a rate of 54.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 271 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Christchurch.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (841), anti-social behaviour (758) and other crime (351).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Christchurch was 52.8 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 Christchurch, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Christchurch has no single figure. Of its 31 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Christchurch
Your MP
- Sir Christopher ChopeConservativeMP for Christchurch
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 Christchurch1
Middle areas in Christchurch7
Towns near Christchurch6
Christchurch in brief
Christchurch is a town in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West.
About 48,827 people lived in Christchurch in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £415,000 in 2025 across 866 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Christchurch was £415,000 in 2025.
Christchurch had 48,973 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Christchurch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Christchurch, 88.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.