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Chatteris

Chatteris is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of around 10,298. It has around 1 GP & clinic, 2 pharmacies, 14 restaurants and cafés, and 12 bus stops. The average sold house price is around £224,345, and there were around 70 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Chatteris area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Fenland area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 102,459 residents at roughly 188 people per km².

Council
Fenland
County
Cambridgeshire
Constituency
North East Cambridgeshire
Police force
Cambridgeshire
45/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 184th of 294 English council areas — better than 37% of them.

Low crime51
Home affordability63
Affordable rents63
Good schools68
Life expectancy33
Low deprivation14
Employment32
Low council tax24

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

9°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 12° / 8° · 48% rain
  • Tomorrow: 13° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:28

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.0 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

65 reported · August 2026▼ 17% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences31
  • Anti-social behaviour22
  • Criminal damage & arson3
  • Shoplifting3

Neighbourhood team: March · Cambridgeshire

Local policing priorities

  • Using a combination of your feedback and our own data, we have set the below priorities for your local neighbourhood policing team in the…
  • Tackling vehicle-related anti-social behaviour (ASB) and traffic offences. Addressing persistent vehicle-related ASB and criminality in a…

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

129 reported road collisions (2025)

41 killed or seriously injured · 185 casualties · 12.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

50 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 48 rated 4–5 ★ (44 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • 15 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Manea (9.7 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£224,770 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Fenland · to 2026-08

Detached£308,805
Semi-detached£205,246
Terraced£162,442
Flat£91,971

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£842 average monthly rent▲ 3.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £627
  • 2 bed £807
  • 3 bed £979

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

7.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.4 times median annual pay (7.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,413 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (0.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 143.8p · AppleGreen (0.5 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

3 charging locations within ~8 km

  • Fastest nearby: 7 kW
  • Nearest: Askham Community Village (4.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches22
  • Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

102,459 residents in Fenland · 188/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,353
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,468
  • Net moves+885

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 42 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,538 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 48,110)

A £1,692
B £1,974
C £2,256
D £2,538
E £3,102
F £3,666
G £4,230
H £5,075

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

47 schools · 13,993 pupils

31 primary · 4 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 23 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

38 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Thomas Clarkson AcademyGood
  • Neale-Wade AcademyRequires improvement
  • Sir Harry Smith Community College
  • The Wisbech Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Fenland

Care & health services

595 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes139
  • GP practices108
  • Dentists128
  • Homecare agencies139
  • Hospitals & hospices20

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cambridgeshire

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 112 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

158 applications decided

87.3% granted · 138 granted, 20 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Steve Barclay

Conservative

North East Cambridgeshire

Recent votes:

  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 12

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Con 35
  • LD 2
  • Oth 6

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools3
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies2
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens16
  • Restaurants & cafés14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

63 jobs advertised · £38,707 avg

e.g. Production Operative - Chatteris, PPT Driver, Quality Champions

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£688 median full-time weekly pay

3.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,333 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,212 certificates

10.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

84% low-carbon electricity

Wind 55% · Nuclear 19% · Gas 15% · Biomass 10%

72 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 82.8 yrs women · 79.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Cambridgeshire): 61.5 women · 62.3 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

1 GP surgery · 2 pharmacies in PE16

  • George Clare Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North East Cambridgeshire:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Chatteris · 0.2 km

    Chatteris is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in the Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary consti…

  • Chatteris Abbey · 0.4 km

    Chatteris Abbey in Chatteris in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire was founded as a monastery for Benedictine nuns in 1016 by Eadnoth, Bishop of Dorchester on Thames. Before 1310 much of the monastery was destroyed by fi…

  • Cromwell Community College · 0.7 km

    Cromwell Community College is a coeducational all-through school and sixth form located in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England.

  • Chatteris railway station · 0.8 km

    Chatteris railway station was a station in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, on the line between St Ives and March, which was built as a branch of the Great Eastern Railway in 1848 and was later incorporated into the Great N…

  • Chatteris Town F.C. · 1.2 km

    Chatteris Town Football Club is a football club based in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England. They are currently members of the Cambridgeshire League Division One B and play at West Street.

  • Forty Foot Drain · 1.4 km

    The Forty Foot or Forty Foot Drain is a name given to several of the principal channels in the drainage schemes of the Fens of Eastern England, the name being qualified when there is a need to distinguish between them…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Chatteris?
Chatteris is a town in Cambridgeshire, England, in the Fenland local authority.
What is the population of Chatteris?
Chatteris has an approximate settlement population of 10,298.
How deprived is Chatteris?
The Fenland local authority, which includes Chatteris, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2025.