CH1
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Chester, Blacon and Newtown, in Cheshire West and Chester.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an CH1 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 42% of people in CH1 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How CH1 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CH1 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CH1 at a rate of 159.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across the CH postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 487 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CH1.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,370), other crime (1,207) and shoplifting (601).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CH1 was 163.7 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 CH1, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CH1 has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in CH1
MPs for CH1
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston97% of CH1’s postcodes
- Sir Mark TamiLabourMP for Alyn and Deeside1.9% of CH1’s postcodes
- Justin MaddersLabourMP for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough1.0% of CH1’s postcodes
- Sarah PochinReform UKMP for Runcorn and Helsby0.5% of CH1’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in CH15
Postcode sectors in CH17
Council1
Towns in CH11
Postcode districts next to CH17
Nearest rail stations4
More in the CH postcode area2
CH1 in brief
CH1 is a postcode district covering Chester, Blacon and Newtown, in Cheshire West and Chester.
About 34,798 people lived in CH1 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £207,500 in 2025 across 483 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 159.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CH1 was £207,500 in 2025.
CH1 had 32,804 usual residents at the census.
About 42% of people in CH1 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In CH1, 70.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.