CH3
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Boughton and Chester, 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 CH3 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 12% of people in CH3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How CH3 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CH3 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CH3 at a rate of 33.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across the CH postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 109 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CH3.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (564), other crime (344) and anti-social behaviour (126).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CH3 was 34.6 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 CH3, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CH3 has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in CH3
MPs for CH3
- Aphra BrandrethConservativeMP for Chester South and Eddisbury63% of CH3’s postcodes
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston25% of CH3’s postcodes
- Sarah PochinReform UKMP for Runcorn and Helsby12% of CH3’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 CH35
Postcode sectors in CH35
Council1
Towns in CH31
Postcode districts next to CH38
More in the CH postcode area2
CH3 in brief
CH3 is a postcode district covering Boughton and Chester, in Cheshire West and Chester.
About 37,482 people lived in CH3 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £322,250 in 2025 across 580 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 33.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CH3 was £322,250 in 2025.
CH3 had 36,607 usual residents at the census.
About 12% of people in CH3 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In CH3, 81.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.