Middlewich
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Middlewich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Middlewich 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 Middlewich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Middlewich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Middlewich safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Middlewich at a rate of 76.8 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, 110 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Middlewich.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (528), other crime (265) and criminal damage and arson (99).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Middlewich was 71.2 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 Middlewich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Middlewich has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Middlewich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 024A | 1,673 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.9% |
| Cheshire East 024B | 1,669 | 131.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.1% |
| Cheshire East 024C | 1,493 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Cheshire East 024D | 1,215 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 43.3% |
| Cheshire East 025A | 2,358 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Cheshire East 025B | 1,910 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.4% |
| Cheshire East 025C | 1,276 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 025D | 1,350 | 214.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.4% |
| Cheshire East 025E | 1,482 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
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 Middlewich1
Middle areas in Middlewich2
Towns near Middlewich6
Middlewich in brief
Middlewich is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 14,613 people lived in Middlewich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 251 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Middlewich was £225,000 in 2025.
Middlewich had 14,428 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Middlewich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Middlewich, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.