Poynton
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Poynton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Poynton 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 Poynton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Poynton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Poynton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Poynton at a rate of 36.2 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, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Poynton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (198), other crime (94) and shoplifting (63).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Poynton was 39.0 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 Poynton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Poynton has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Poynton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 002A | 1,140 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| Cheshire East 002B | 1,201 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Cheshire East 002C | 1,571 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.7% |
| Cheshire East 002D | 1,376 | 19.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.3% |
| Cheshire East 002E | 1,148 | 23.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.6% |
| Cheshire East 003A | 1,571 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.8% |
| Cheshire East 003C | 1,181 | 12.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 003D | 1,218 | 21.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.0% |
| Cheshire East 003F | 2,459 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
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 Poynton1
Middle areas in Poynton2
Towns near Poynton6
Poynton in brief
Poynton is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 13,625 people lived in Poynton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £445,250 in 2025 across 254 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 36.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Poynton was £445,250 in 2025.
Poynton had 13,015 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Poynton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Poynton, 92.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.