Ellesmere Port
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Ellesmere Port is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ellesmere Port 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 Ellesmere Port live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ellesmere Port compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ellesmere Port safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ellesmere Port at a rate of 93.7 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, 542 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ellesmere Port.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,773), other crime (1,291) and shoplifting (654).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ellesmere Port was 85.7 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 Ellesmere Port, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ellesmere Port has no single figure. Of its 45 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ellesmere Port
Your MP
- Justin MaddersLabourMP for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
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 Ellesmere Port3
Middle areas in Ellesmere Port9
Towns near Ellesmere Port6
Ellesmere Port in brief
Ellesmere Port is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 68,346 people lived in Ellesmere Port in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £202,000 in 2025 across 873 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ellesmere Port was £202,000 in 2025.
Ellesmere Port had 65,425 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Ellesmere Port live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ellesmere Port, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.