Northwich
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Northwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Northwich 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 Northwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Northwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Northwich safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Northwich at a rate of 105.6 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, 225 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Northwich.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (878), other crime (402) and anti-social behaviour (257).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Northwich was 107.1 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 Northwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Northwich has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Northwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire West and Chester 018B | 1,978 | 427.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.0% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 018C | 1,670 | 142.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 018D | 1,151 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.3% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 018E | 1,629 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 018F | 1,173 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 018G | 1,558 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 020A | 1,463 | 74.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 020B | 1,419 | 92.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 020C | 1,471 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.9% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 020D | 1,492 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.5% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 021C | 1,553 | 66.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Cheshire West and Chester 021D | 1,720 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
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 Northwich2
Middle areas in Northwich2
Towns near Northwich6
Northwich in brief
Northwich is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 19,628 people lived in Northwich 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 420 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Northwich was £225,000 in 2025.
Northwich had 18,646 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Northwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Northwich, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.