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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a town in Derbyshire, England, with a population of around 113,057. It has around 3 GP surgeries, 4 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, and around 105 restaurants and cafés, along with 92 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Chesterfield, 1.2 km away. The average sold house price is around £234,057, and there were around 242 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 Chesterfield area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Chesterfield area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 103,569 residents at roughly 1,568 people per km².

Council
Chesterfield
County
Derbyshire
Constituency
Chesterfield
Police force
Derbyshire
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My Area Score

Good

Ranked 148th of 294 English council areas — better than 50% of them.

Low crime23
Home affordability92
Affordable rents94
Good schools83
Life expectancy2
Low deprivation27
Employment44
Low council tax73

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

7°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 10° / 6° · 47% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:11Sunset 16:26

9h 15m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Loundsley Green, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.1 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

254 reported · August 2026▲ 22% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences120
  • Anti-social behaviour32
  • Shoplifting22
  • Public order20

10 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Brimington · Derbyshire

Local policing priorities

  • 1.Drug Dealing 2.Speeding

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

Road safety

144 reported road collisions (2025)

30 killed or seriously injured · 180 casualties · 13.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 435 rated 4–5 ★ (387 top)
  • 10 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Chesterfield (1.3 km)
  • 22 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Chesterfield (1.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£202,519 average▲ 3% YoY

Across Chesterfield · to 2026-08

Detached£322,413
Semi-detached£194,103
Terraced£154,611
Flat£111,510

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£758 average monthly rent▲ 2.7% YoY

  • 1 bed £541
  • 2 bed £696
  • 3 bed £832

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

Affordability

5.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.2 times median annual pay (5.3× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,470 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 · BP (9.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · BP (9.5 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

34 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Casa Hotel (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches11
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

103,569 residents in Chesterfield · 1,568/km²

  • Under 16: 17%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,954
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK5,060
  • Net moves+894

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

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 80 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

12% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,339 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (53% of 51,340)

A £1,560
B £1,820
C £2,080
D £2,339
E £2,859
F £3,379
G £3,899
H £4,679

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

Schools

52 schools · 15,624 pupils

36 primary · 8 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 20 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (95%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademyOutstanding
  • Brookfield Community SchoolGood
  • Outwood Academy Hasland HallGood
  • Whittington Green SchoolGood
  • Netherthorpe School
  • Outwood Academy Newbold
  • Parkside Community School
  • Springwell Community College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Chesterfield

Care & health services

689 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes245
  • GP practices111
  • Dentists139
  • Homecare agencies147
  • Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Derbyshire

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

78 applications decided

87.2% granted · 68 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Mr Toby Perkins

Labour

Chesterfield

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 majority

  • Lab 27
  • LD 11
  • Ref 2

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools9
  • GPs & clinics3
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets6
  • Parks & greens8
  • Restaurants & cafés60

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

4,220 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

1,093 jobs advertised · £36,520 avg

e.g. Roadside Technician - West Midlands, Gopuff Delivery Drivers or Riders - Choose when you work!, Gopuff Delivery Drivers or Riders - Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£718 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,241 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 53,094 certificates

12.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 40% · Biomass 32% · Gas 20% · Imports 4%

115 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 80 yrs women · 77 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Derbyshire): 60.5 women · 60.5 men

64% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.3
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in S41

  • Newbold Surgery
  • Whittington Moor Surgery
  • St Mary'S Gate

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chesterfield:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Tapton, Derbyshire · 0.4 km

    Tapton is a suburb of Chesterfield, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is located along the Brimington Road B6543, between Chesterfield town centre, and Brimington. It became a suburb of Chesterfield in the 1920…

  • Tapton House · 0.6 km

    Tapton House, in Tapton, Derbyshire, England, was once the home of engineer George Stephenson, who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Tapton has been a gentleman's residence, a…

  • Christ Church, Chesterfield · 0.7 km

    Christ Church, Chesterfield is a parish church in the Church of England in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

  • SMH Group Stadium · 0.7 km

    SMH Group Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Dema Glassworks. It is the home of Chesterfield Football Club, replacing Saltergate as the c…

  • Sheepbridge and Brimington railway station · 0.9 km

    Sheepbridge and Brimington railway station was on the outskirts of the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

  • Chesterfield (constituency) · 1.1 km

    Chesterfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Toby Perkins of the Labour Party.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Chesterfield?
Chesterfield is a town in Derbyshire, England, in the Chesterfield local authority.
What is the population of Chesterfield?
Chesterfield has an approximate settlement population of 113,057.
How deprived is Chesterfield?
The Chesterfield local authority, which includes Chesterfield, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.