Macclesfield
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Macclesfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Macclesfield 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 15% of people in Macclesfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Macclesfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Macclesfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Macclesfield at a rate of 85.0 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, 462 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Macclesfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,111), other crime (924) and shoplifting (589).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Macclesfield was 79.0 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 Macclesfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Macclesfield has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Macclesfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 014A | 1,582 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Cheshire East 014B | 1,307 | 15.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 014C | 2,007 | 14.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| Cheshire East 014D | 1,357 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.8% |
| Cheshire East 015A | 1,798 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.2% |
| Cheshire East 015B | 1,524 | 97.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| Cheshire East 015C | 1,519 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.7% |
| Cheshire East 015D | 1,468 | 82.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.3% |
| Cheshire East 015E | 1,360 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.0% |
| Cheshire East 016B | 1,550 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| Cheshire East 016C | 1,891 | 137.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.8% |
| Cheshire East 016D | 1,287 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Cheshire East 016E | 1,342 | 161.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Cheshire East 016F | 1,272 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Cheshire East 016G | 1,079 | 132.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.0% |
| Cheshire East 017A | 1,216 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Cheshire East 017B | 1,535 | 124.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.5% |
| Cheshire East 017C | 1,353 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.7% |
| Cheshire East 017D | 1,729 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| Cheshire East 017E | 1,493 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Cheshire East 018A | 1,316 | 94.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.2% |
| Cheshire East 018B | 1,438 | 23.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.0% |
| Cheshire East 018C | 1,984 | 507.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.0% |
| Cheshire East 018D | 1,437 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.0% |
| Cheshire East 018E | 1,697 | 133.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.8% |
| Cheshire East 018F | 1,181 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Cheshire East 018G | 1,370 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.0% |
| Cheshire East 019A | 1,837 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 019B | 1,765 | 140.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| Cheshire East 019C | 1,742 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| Cheshire East 019D | 1,521 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Cheshire East 021A | 1,848 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Cheshire East 021B | 1,536 | 126.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 60.4% |
| Cheshire East 021C | 1,566 | 76.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.8% |
| Cheshire East 021D | 1,257 | 124.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.4% |
Your MP
- Tim RocaLabourMP for Macclesfield
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 Macclesfield2
Middle areas in Macclesfield7
Towns near Macclesfield6
Macclesfield in brief
Macclesfield is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 56,372 people lived in Macclesfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 1,096 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Macclesfield was £260,000 in 2025.
Macclesfield had 54,352 usual residents at the census.
About 15% of people in Macclesfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Macclesfield, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.