Neston
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Neston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Neston 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 9% of people in Neston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Neston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Neston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Neston at a rate of 46.6 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, 44 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Neston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (311), other crime (112) and anti-social behaviour (94).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Neston was 49.3 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 Neston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Neston has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 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 Neston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire West and Chester 001A | 2,480 | 121.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.3% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 001B | 1,665 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.3% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 001C | 1,720 | 16.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 001D | 2,046 | 34.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 006A | 1,884 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 006B | 1,460 | 12.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 006C | 1,425 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 006D | 1,867 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.0% |
Your MP
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston
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 Neston1
Middle areas in Neston2
Towns near Neston6
Neston in brief
Neston is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 15,122 people lived in Neston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £283,000 in 2025 across 239 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 46.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Neston was £283,000 in 2025.
Neston had 14,963 usual residents at the census.
About 9% of people in Neston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Neston, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.