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Alsager

Alsager is a town in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 13,347. It has 1 pharmacy, 1 supermarket, and around 19 restaurants and cafés, along with 45 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Alsager, 0.8 km away. There were around 92 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 Alsager area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cheshire East area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 398,772 residents at roughly 342 people per km².

Council
Cheshire East
County
Cheshire
Constituency
Congleton
Police force
Cheshire
62/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 65th of 294 English council areas — better than 78% of them.

Low crime72
Home affordability61
Affordable rents72
Good schools43
Life expectancy52
Low deprivation78
Employment78
Low council tax45

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

8°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 6° · 25% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:30

9h 16m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stoke-on-Trent Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

62 reported · August 2026▼ 30% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences31
  • Anti-social behaviour8
  • Public order7
  • Criminal damage & arson4

10 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Alsager · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • Residents reported concerns about suspected drug dealing from a flat on Crewe Road. There was also suggestion the occupants were involved…

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

Road safety

578 reported road collisions (2025)

170 killed or seriously injured · 696 casualties · 14.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

53 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 46 rated 4–5 ★ (41 top)
  • 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Alsager (0.8 km)
  • 45 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Alsager (0.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£311,897 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Cheshire East · to 2026-08

Detached£504,698
Semi-detached£299,120
Terraced£231,113
Flat£157,592

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£985 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £696
  • 2 bed £898
  • 3 bed £1,106

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

Affordability

7.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.6 times median annual pay (6.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

6,340 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: 154.9p · Esso (11 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (9.7 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

15 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: SHELL RECHARGE BARTHOMLEY (3.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches21
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

398,772 residents in Cheshire East · 342/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 60%
  • 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK21,219
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK16,144
  • Net moves+5,075

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 231 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,455 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (21% of 190,830)

A £1,637
B £1,909
C £2,182
D £2,455
E £3,000
F £3,546
G £4,091
H £4,910

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

Schools

182 schools · 59,906 pupils

125 primary · 23 secondary · 34 other

Ofsted: 61 of 70 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (87%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Alsager SchoolGood
  • Holmes Chapel Comprehensive SchoolGood
  • Malbank School and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • Middlewich High SchoolGood
  • Sandbach High School and Sixth Form CollegeGood
  • The Fallibroome AcademyGood
  • The Oaks AcademyGood
  • The Macclesfield AcademyRequires improvement
  • All Hallows Catholic College
  • Brine Leas School
  • Cheshire Studio School
  • Congleton High School
  • Crewe Engineering and Design UTC
  • Eaton Bank Academy
  • Knutsford Academy
  • Poynton High School
  • Ruskin Community High School
  • Sandbach School
  • Shavington Academy
  • Sir William Stanier School
  • St Thomas More Catholic High School
  • Tytherington School
  • Wilmslow High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Cheshire East

Care & health services

414 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes105
  • GP practices72
  • Dentists104
  • Homecare agencies94
  • Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cheshire East

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

553 applications decided

85.7% granted · 474 granted, 79 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sarah Russell

Labour

Congleton

Recent votes:

  • AyeRailways Bill: Carry-over extension (Motion)
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 8
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 6
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: New Clause 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour / Independent coalition

  • Lab 28
  • Con 32
  • LD 1
  • Grn 1
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 19

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools6
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies3
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens10
  • Restaurants & cafés22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

22,390 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

27 jobs advertised · £28,924 avg

e.g. Barista - Store 87684, Alsager - Sainsbury's, Nursery Lead Practitioner, Sports Coach

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£808 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£29,202 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 195,088 certificates

9.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

79% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Nuclear 25% · Gas 18% · Imports 3%

72 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84 yrs women · 80.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66 women · 64.5 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Health services

8 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in ST7

  • Kidsgrove Medical Centre
  • Audley Health Centre
  • Mount Road Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Congleton:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Christ Church, Alsager · 0.6 km

    Christ Church Alsager is in the town of Alsager, Cheshire, England. Its mission is to love God and to love others. Christ Church Alsager provides activities for all ages including children, youth and the elderly, as w…

  • Alsager School · 0.7 km

    Alsager School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Alsager in the English county of Cheshire.

  • Alsager railway station · 0.8 km

    Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager, in Cheshire, England. It stands next to a level crossing and is approximately 600 yards (550 m) from the town centre. The station is 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) east of Cr…

  • Millway railway station · 1.6 km

    Millway railway station was a short lived railway station built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway to serve ROF Radway Green in Cheshire.

  • ROF Radway Green · 1.6 km

    BAE Systems Radway Green previously known as Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), Radway Green manufactures small arms ammunition for the British armed forces. It is located in the hamlet of Radway Green near Alsager in Che…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Alsager?
Alsager is a town in Cheshire, England, in the Cheshire East local authority.
What is the population of Alsager?
Alsager has an approximate settlement population of 13,347.
How deprived is Alsager?
The Cheshire East local authority, which includes Alsager, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.