Winsford
TownTown in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
Winsford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Winsford 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 Winsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Winsford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Winsford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Winsford at a rate of 86.3 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, 274 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Winsford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,500), other crime (596) and anti-social behaviour (363).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Winsford was 77.8 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 Winsford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Winsford has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Winsford
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 Winsford1
Middle areas in Winsford5
Towns near Winsford6
Winsford in brief
Winsford is a town in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
About 34,373 people lived in Winsford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 445 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Winsford was £200,000 in 2025.
Winsford had 32,522 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Winsford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Winsford, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.