Crewe
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Crewe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crewe 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 0% of people in Crewe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Crewe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Crewe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crewe at a rate of 106.4 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, 688 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crewe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,616), other crime (1,872) and anti-social behaviour (795).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crewe was 105.3 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 Crewe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crewe has no single figure. Of its 46 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 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 Crewe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 034A | 1,337 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.1% |
| Cheshire East 034B | 1,571 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.0% |
| Cheshire East 034C | 1,758 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Cheshire East 034D | 1,666 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| Cheshire East 035A | 1,440 | 133.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Cheshire East 035B | 1,578 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.1% |
| Cheshire East 035C | 1,725 | 78.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Cheshire East 035D | 1,752 | 39.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Cheshire East 035E | 2,356 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.5% |
| Cheshire East 036A | 1,434 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 036B | 1,403 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Cheshire East 036C | 1,500 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Cheshire East 036D | 2,333 | 144.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 80.0% |
| Cheshire East 036F | 1,301 | 142.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.6% |
| Cheshire East 036G | 1,521 | 151.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.1% |
| Cheshire East 037A | 1,375 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.5% |
| Cheshire East 037B | 1,375 | 262.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.7% |
| Cheshire East 037C | 2,246 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.0% |
| Cheshire East 037D | 1,563 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.2% |
| Cheshire East 038A | 1,478 | 59.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Cheshire East 038B | 1,147 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Cheshire East 038C | 1,516 | 164.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| Cheshire East 038D | 1,426 | 139.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Cheshire East 039A | 1,926 | 238.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.2% |
| Cheshire East 039B | 1,552 | 653.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.5% |
| Cheshire East 039C | 1,612 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.0% |
| Cheshire East 039D | 1,214 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.4% |
| Cheshire East 039E | 1,675 | 134.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.0% |
| Cheshire East 043A | 1,587 | 181.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.0% |
| Cheshire East 043B | 1,753 | 96.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Cheshire East 043C | 1,614 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Cheshire East 043D | 1,632 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 044A | 1,703 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| Cheshire East 044B | 1,406 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.2% |
| Cheshire East 044C | 1,703 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| Cheshire East 044D | 1,544 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 75.3% |
| Cheshire East 045A | 1,939 | 131.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.5% |
| Cheshire East 045B | 1,479 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Cheshire East 045C | 1,966 | 153.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Cheshire East 045D | 1,682 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.5% |
| Cheshire East 046A | 1,755 | 41.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.7% |
| Cheshire East 046C | 1,064 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 046D | 1,256 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.3% |
| Cheshire East 046E | 1,298 | 17.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| Cheshire East 046F | 1,315 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 36.1% |
| Cheshire East 052A | 1,553 | 159.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.2% |
Your MP
- Connor NaismithLabourMP for Crewe and Nantwich
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 Crewe2
Middle areas in Crewe10
Towns near Crewe6
Crewe in brief
Crewe is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 79,960 people lived in Crewe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,500 in 2025 across 1,042 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 106.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crewe was £185,500 in 2025.
Crewe had 74,116 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Crewe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Crewe, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.