Nantwich
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Nantwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Nantwich 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 Nantwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Nantwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Nantwich safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Nantwich at a rate of 83.8 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, 137 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Nantwich.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (801), other crime (323) and anti-social behaviour (170).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Nantwich was 74.3 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 Nantwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Nantwich has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Nantwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 047A | 1,306 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 56.8% |
| Cheshire East 047B | 1,560 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.7% |
| Cheshire East 047C | 1,334 | 123.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 78.1% |
| Cheshire East 047D | 1,298 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 63.6% |
| Cheshire East 047E | 1,469 | 46.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 63.0% |
| Cheshire East 050A | 1,095 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 050C | 1,720 | 59.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 31.7% |
| Cheshire East 050D | 1,652 | 211.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 38.8% |
| Cheshire East 050E | 1,161 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.2% |
| Cheshire East 050F | 1,456 | 169.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.9% |
| Cheshire East 052E | 1,345 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.9% |
| Cheshire East 053A | 1,158 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Cheshire East 053B | 2,059 | 20.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.3% |
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 Nantwich1
Middle areas in Nantwich2
Towns near Nantwich6
Nantwich in brief
Nantwich is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 19,619 people lived in Nantwich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £265,500 in 2025 across 431 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Nantwich was £265,500 in 2025.
Nantwich had 18,741 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Nantwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Nantwich, 71.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.