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Crewe

Crewe is a town in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 76,437. It has around 50 restaurants and cafés, 3 pharmacies, and 5 supermarkets, along with 87 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Crewe, 1.4 km away. The average sold house price is around £267,296, and there were around 524 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 Crewe area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Cheshire East area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 398,772 residents at roughly 342 people per km².

Council
Cheshire East
County
Cheshire
Constituency
Crewe and Nantwich
Police force
Cheshire
62/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 68th of 294 English council areas — better than 77% of them.

Low crime72
Home affordability61
Affordable rents72
Good schools43
Life expectancy55
Low deprivation72
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

16°CMist

  • Today: 21° / 15° · 75% rain
  • Tomorrow: 23° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:32

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

25US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Crime

497 reported · July 2026 2% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences188
  • Public order67
  • Anti-social behaviour57
  • Shoplifting52

95 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Crewe Central · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • Members of our community raised concerns around the number of convenience stores within the town centre and specifically the sale of vape…

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

Road safety

570 reported road collisions (2024)

148 killed or seriously injured · 743 casualties · 14.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

363 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 299 rated 4–5 ★ (263 top)
  • 13 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Crewe (1.2 km)
  • 78 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Crewe (1.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£303,387 average 5% YoY

Across Cheshire East · to 2026-06

Detached£493,244
Semi-detached£290,686
Terraced£223,543
Flat£152,964

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£984 average monthly rent 6.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £696
  • 2 bed £898
  • 3 bed £1,105

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (1.6 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Morrisons (0.8 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

26 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 15 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: Undercroft Car Park , Crewe Library (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Gyms2
  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches35
  • Playgrounds17

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)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 228 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

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 · 60,238 pupils

124 primary · 23 secondary · 35 other

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

157inspected 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

412 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes105
  • GP practices71
  • Dentists104
  • Homecare agencies93
  • Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Cheshire East

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

548 applications decided

89.1% granted · 488 granted, 60 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Connor Naismith

Labour

Crewe and Nantwich

Recent votes:

  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143

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

  • Schools16
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies6
  • Supermarkets11
  • Parks & greens33
  • Restaurants & cafés94

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

22,075 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

934 jobs advertised · £39,100 avg

e.g. Nursery Room Leader, Catering Apprentice Level 2, Looking For Part-Time Opportunities? - Deliver with Uber Eats

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

93% low-carbon electricity

Wind 50% · Nuclear 39% · Gas 7% · Biomass 4%

30 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Crewe and Nantwich:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Crewe War Memorial · 0.1 km

    Crewe War Memorial stands in the Municipal Square, in Crewe, Cheshire, England. It consists of a bronze sculpture of Britannia standing on a pedestal, itself on a square base. The sculptor was Walter Gilbert and the s…

  • Christ Church Tower, Crewe · 0.1 km

    Christ Church Tower is a Gothic Revival church tower in Prince Albert Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1877 for Christ Church parish church, and retained when much of the church was demolished in 1977…

  • Crewe Municipal Buildings · 0.2 km

    Crewe Municipal Buildings is a municipal building in Earle Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. The buildings, which formed the headquarters of Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, are Grade II listed.

  • Crewe · 0.2 km

    Crewe is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 55,318 and the built-up area had 76,437. The town is best kn…

  • Crewe bus station · 0.2 km

    Crewe bus station in Crewe, Cheshire East, England, is a bus terminus for approximately 11 bus services. It opened to the public on 7th May 2024 as part of the Royal Arcade development in Crewe town centre.

  • Lyceum Theatre, Crewe · 0.3 km

    The Lyceum Theatre is an Edwardian theatre in Heath Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It originated as a converted Roman Catholic Church in 1876. The church was replaced in 1887 by a purpose-built theatre, which burnt…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Crewe?
Crewe is a town in Cheshire, England, in the Cheshire East local authority.
What is the population of Crewe?
Crewe has an approximate settlement population of 76,437.
How deprived is Crewe?
The Cheshire East local authority, which includes Crewe, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.