Davenham
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Davenham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Davenham 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 Davenham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Davenham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Davenham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Davenham at a rate of 36.8 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, 49 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Davenham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (258), other crime (99) and anti-social behaviour (71).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Davenham was 39.7 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 Davenham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Davenham has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Davenham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire West and Chester 021A | 1,541 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 021B | 1,436 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 023D | 1,862 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 023E | 1,475 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 023F | 1,973 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.7% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 026A | 1,703 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.9% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 026B | 1,659 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 026C | 1,306 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 026D | 1,782 | 27.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Andrew CooperLabourMP for Mid Cheshire
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 Davenham1
Middle areas in Davenham1
Towns near Davenham6
Davenham in brief
Davenham is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 14,335 people lived in Davenham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £317,186 in 2025 across 269 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 36.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Davenham was £317,186 in 2025.
Davenham had 13,840 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Davenham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Davenham, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.