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Chesterfield

Town

Town in Chesterfield, East Midlands.

Chesterfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chesterfield add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.

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Gigabit coverage by town

Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026

Under 60%98% or more

In Chesterfield, 90.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

Median sale price
£208,000
Joint 270th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
76,394
143rd most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
Gigabit broadband coverage
90.8%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
3.5%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Chesterfield compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

ChesterfieldMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. Chesterfield is £208,000.
£208,00030th cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. Chesterfield is 76,394.
76,3946th most populated
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. Chesterfield is 90.8%.
90.8%19th lowest
Claimant rate105 towns, East Midlands · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 1.3% to 6.2%. The middle area is 3.1%. Chesterfield is 3.5%.
3.5%joint 29th highest

Is Chesterfield safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chesterfield at a rate of 133.6 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 954 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chesterfield.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,247), other crime (1,795) and anti-social behaviour (1,636).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chesterfield was 127.9 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 Chesterfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chesterfield has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 14 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 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 Chesterfield

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Chesterfield 001A1,26575.0 per 1,000499.5%
Chesterfield 001B1,46548.3 per 1,000799.7%
Chesterfield 001C1,332104.1 per 1,000182.7%
Chesterfield 001D1,55989.7 per 1,000383.4%
Chesterfield 001E1,293159.7 per 1,000371.0%
Chesterfield 003B1,41960.9 per 1,0004100.0%
Chesterfield 004A1,51379.9 per 1,000399.8%
Chesterfield 004B1,577180.7 per 1,000278.1%
Chesterfield 004C1,859127.0 per 1,000395.8%
Chesterfield 004D1,54589.5 per 1,000497.6%
Chesterfield 004E1,511106.3 per 1,000297.2%
Chesterfield 005B1,328147.3 per 1,0001092.3%
Chesterfield 007A1,63645.2 per 1,000898.3%
Chesterfield 007B1,496373.0 per 1,000380.8%
Chesterfield 007C1,28489.5 per 1,000599.9%
Chesterfield 007D1,638150.4 per 1,000399.7%
Chesterfield 007E1,335115.5 per 1,000277.4%
Chesterfield 008A1,50189.9 per 1,000687.8%
Chesterfield 008B1,27525.3 per 1,0001090.1%
Chesterfield 008C1,06951.0 per 1,000997.9%
Chesterfield 008D1,33773.1 per 1,000396.2%
Chesterfield 008E1,210213.8 per 1,000138.6%
Chesterfield 008F1,193109.5 per 1,000398.4%
Chesterfield 009A1,56453.3 per 1,000693.4%
Chesterfield 009B1,41364.2 per 1,000999.4%
Chesterfield 009C1,45359.1 per 1,000397.4%
Chesterfield 009D1,79679.3 per 1,0001099.9%
Chesterfield 009E1,51364.5 per 1,000799.6%
Chesterfield 010A1,982197.6 per 1,000490.1%
Chesterfield 010B1,329123.7 per 1,000393.1%
Chesterfield 010C1,491176.2 per 1,000289.4%
Chesterfield 010D1,857170.2 per 1,000389.6%
Chesterfield 010F1,1901,596.9 per 1,000353.3%
Chesterfield 010G1,734227.1 per 1,000397.6%
Chesterfield 011A1,31333.0 per 1,0001099.2%
Chesterfield 011B1,38654.0 per 1,000995.3%
Chesterfield 011C1,33122.9 per 1,0001099.7%
Chesterfield 011D1,30239.5 per 1,000999.2%
Chesterfield 011E1,66548.9 per 1,0001099.2%
Chesterfield 011F1,11010.2 per 1,0001098.9%
Chesterfield 012A1,322119.2 per 1,000693.8%
Chesterfield 012B1,38874.5 per 1,000671.1%
Chesterfield 012C1,371134.5 per 1,000298.2%
Chesterfield 012D2,21090.4 per 1,000794.3%
Chesterfield 012E1,47757.1 per 1,000696.4%
Chesterfield 012F1,37446.3 per 1,000888.3%
Chesterfield 012G2,273135.6 per 1,000789.3%
Chesterfield 013A1,65798.0 per 1,000199.7%
Chesterfield 013B1,606111.5 per 1,000292.8%
Chesterfield 013C1,493165.0 per 1,000394.8%
Chesterfield 013D1,546248.3 per 1,000191.3%

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As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Chesterfield4

Middle areas in Chesterfield9

Towns near Chesterfield6

Chesterfield in brief

Chesterfield is a town in Chesterfield, East Midlands.

About 78,293 people lived in Chesterfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £208,000 in 2025 across 1,169 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 133.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Chesterfield was £208,000 in 2025.

Chesterfield had 76,394 usual residents at the census.

In Chesterfield, 90.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Chesterfield, 3.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.