Crewe

What is it like to live in Crewe?

Homes sold for a typical £192,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 6.7% on the 12 months before. At 1,311 of the 1,631 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 95 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 31 of its 1,708 postcodes. It has 17 primary schools and 7 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Crewe, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Crewe?

Homes in Crewe sold for a typical £192,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 772 sales, up 6.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £297,200 238 sales
• Semi-detached £190,000 299 sales
• Terraced £137,750 200 sales
• Flat or maisonette £96,000 35 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole CW1 district, Crewe's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Crewe: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Crewe?

93 of the 1,708 postcodes now in use in Crewe came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 35 of the 1,021 homes sold in Crewe were newly built (3%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW1 district, 10%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Crewe?

Ofcom reports on 1,631 of the 1,708 postcodes in Crewe. At 1,311 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Crewe at risk of flooding?

31 of the 1,708 postcodes in Crewe have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 95 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Crewe?

The open schools at the postcodes in Crewe (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Crewe?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Crewe is Crewe Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.

• Crewe Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Nantwich Rail Station Railway station 5.9 kmDrive
• Sandbach Rail Station Railway station 7.0 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Crewe?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Crewe. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Earnswood Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01270 376666 450 mWalk
• Millcroft Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2026 · Phone 01270 275200 450 mWalk
• Grosvenor Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01270 256340 750 mWalk
• Hungerford Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2023 · Phone 01270 275949 1.5 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Crewe safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 5,859 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Crewe over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 145, vehicle crime 128, bicycle theft 68, possession of weapons 68, robbery 38, theft from the person 20.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Crewe?

Council

Cheshire East

Parliamentary constituency

Crewe and Nantwich

Police force area

Cheshire

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Connor Naismith (Labour)

All 1,708 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.