Sandbach
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Sandbach is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sandbach 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 Sandbach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sandbach compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sandbach safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sandbach at a rate of 70.9 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, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sandbach.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (368), other crime (206) and anti-social behaviour (95).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sandbach was 65.9 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 Sandbach, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sandbach has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sandbach
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 030B | 1,561 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.9% |
| Cheshire East 030C | 1,288 | 15.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 030D | 2,063 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.6% |
| Cheshire East 031F | 1,610 | 94.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.4% |
| Cheshire East 032A | 1,349 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.0% |
| Cheshire East 032B | 1,426 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.8% |
| Cheshire East 032C | 1,360 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.0% |
| Cheshire East 032D | 1,455 | 191.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 79.7% |
Your MP
- Sarah RussellLabourMP for Congleton
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 Sandbach1
Middle areas in Sandbach2
Towns near Sandbach6
Sandbach in brief
Sandbach is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 12,307 people lived in Sandbach in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £273,000 in 2025 across 250 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sandbach was £273,000 in 2025.
Sandbach had 11,289 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Sandbach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sandbach, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.