Crime Statistics for Chester, Cheshire, 2024

There were a total of 362 street level crime incidents in Chester in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chester, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	121
Anti Social Behaviour	65
Shoplifting	43
Public Order	34
Drugs	29
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	18
Other Crime	9
Burglary	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	3
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	362

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chester. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Chester

We've taken the ten nearest places to Chester and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Chester has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Boughton (0.62 miles)	381
Chester	362
Hoole (1.39 miles)	257
Lache (1.75 miles)	69
Saltney (2.24 miles)	47
Broughton (4.16 miles)	23
Bretton (3.62 miles)	18
Little Mancot (4.96 miles)	15
Lower Kinnerton (4.47 miles)	8
Gorstella (3.97 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Chester?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Chester and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Boughton	126
Chester	121
Hoole	81
Lache	32
Saltney	22
Little Mancot	9
Broughton	6
Lower Kinnerton	5
Bretton	2
Gorstella	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Chester?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Chester to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Chester compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chester and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Chester is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sealand	99
2	Saltney Mold Junction	98
3	Saltney Stonebridge	96
4	Blacon	76
5	Chester City & the Garden Quarter	58
6	Lache	56
7	Handbridge Park	37
8	Newton & Hoole	33
9	Upton	30
10	Great Boughton	26
11	Christleton & Huntington	19

Which road in Chester has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Chester with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Water Tower View.