Wilmslow
TownTown in Cheshire East, North West.
Wilmslow is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wilmslow 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 Wilmslow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wilmslow compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wilmslow safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wilmslow at a rate of 47.7 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, 111 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wilmslow.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (533), other crime (256) and anti-social behaviour (123).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wilmslow was 47.7 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 Wilmslow, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wilmslow has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wilmslow
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheshire East 004A | 2,373 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 81.0% |
| Cheshire East 004F | 2,049 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.0% |
| Cheshire East 005A | 1,871 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.3% |
| Cheshire East 005B | 1,948 | 14.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| Cheshire East 005C | 1,378 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.3% |
| Cheshire East 005D | 1,584 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Cheshire East 006A | 1,708 | 23.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 64.8% |
| Cheshire East 006B | 1,823 | 48.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| Cheshire East 006C | 1,780 | 174.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.4% |
| Cheshire East 006D | 1,552 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| Cheshire East 008A | 1,522 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.2% |
| Cheshire East 008B | 1,611 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.7% |
| Cheshire East 008C | 1,970 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Cheshire East 008D | 2,186 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
Your MP
- Esther McVeyConservativeMP for Tatton
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 Wilmslow1
Middle areas in Wilmslow3
Towns near Wilmslow6
Wilmslow in brief
Wilmslow is a town in Cheshire East, North West.
About 26,682 people lived in Wilmslow in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £535,000 in 2025 across 500 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wilmslow was £535,000 in 2025.
Wilmslow had 25,716 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wilmslow live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wilmslow, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.