Neighbourhoods in Chichester
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14 neighbourhoods · 75 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Central Chichester | £1,065 | +3.3% | 77 | 59 |
| Selsey | £1,114 | +3.3% | 20 | 74 |
| Tangmere, Mundham & Hunston | £1,129 | +3.3% | 33 | 71 |
| College Lane & Oaklands | £1,192 | +3.3% | 52 | 18 |
| Southbourne, Bosham & Thorney | £1,196 | +3.3% | 65 | 85 |
| Westbourne & Funtington | £1,214 | +3.3% | 31 | 74 |
| Stockbridge & Fishbourne | £1,373 | +3.3% | 60 | 76 |
| Dean, Lavant & Summersdale | £1,374 | +3.3% | 18 | 74 |
| Midhurst & Cocking | £1,417 | +3.3% | 32 | 95 |
| Easebourne & Petworth | £1,494 | +3.3% | 12 | 83 |
| Wittering & Birdham | £1,516 | +3.3% | 16 | 83 |
| Milland & South Harting | £1,558 | +3.3% | 18 | 95 |
| Fernhurst & Northchapel | £1,560 | +3.3% | 14 | 89 |
| Ifold & Wisborough Green | £1,611 | +3.3% | 4 | 87 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Chichester
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Chichester. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Chichester median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Chichester.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Chichester
Crime in Chichester runs at 47% below the national average. Above median (#97 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 53.4, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Chichester
100% of schools serving Chichester are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Chichester
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Chichester
Chichester has 0.51 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Chichester
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Chichester?
- The median monthly rent across Chichester is £1,319, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Chichester?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Chichester by estimated median rent is Central Chichester at approximately £1,065/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Chichester?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Chichester is Central Chichester at 77/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Chichester a safe area?
- Chichester has an average safety score of 72/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Chichester?
- The most common council tax band in Chichester is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £297. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Chichester.
- What is the average salary in Chichester?
- The median annual resident salary in Chichester is £28,585, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Chichester, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Chichester?
- The average property price in Chichester is approximately £424,731 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Chichester?
- Gross rental yield in Chichester is approximately 3.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Chichester?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 7.8 years in Chichester. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Chichester?
- 100% of premises in Chichester are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Chichester?
- 3.4% of 16-64 residents in Chichester are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Chichester?
- Chichester contains 14 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 75 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Chichester
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Chichester 010C
- Chichester 010D
- Chichester 008C
- Chichester 010E
- Chichester 008F
- Chichester 008H
- Chichester 009C
- Chichester 008B
- Chichester 004G
- Chichester 012B
- Chichester 006A
- Chichester 008A
- Chichester 010B
- Chichester 009D
- Chichester 010A
- Chichester 011B
- Chichester 011C
- Chichester 012F
- Chichester 012A
- Chichester 008G
- Chichester 011D
- Chichester 014A
- Chichester 013A
- Chichester 013G
- Chichester 013B
- Chichester 007B
- Chichester 005E
- Chichester 006F
- Chichester 009A
- Chichester 014G
- Chichester 007E
- Chichester 004C
- Chichester 004D
- Chichester 005D
- Chichester 009E
- Chichester 013C
- Chichester 005A
- Chichester 005F
- Chichester 014B
- Chichester 014D
- Chichester 014C
- Chichester 002A
- Chichester 012H
- Chichester 013E
- Chichester 012G
- Chichester 008E
- Chichester 014F
- Chichester 006B
- Chichester 003D
- Chichester 001D
- Chichester 009B
- Chichester 003A
- Chichester 002B
- Chichester 005C
- Chichester 004A
- Chichester 003C
- Chichester 013D
- Chichester 001C
- Chichester 003B
- Chichester 007D
- Chichester 001B
- Chichester 004H
- Chichester 013F
- Chichester 006C
- Chichester 012D
- Chichester 012E
- Chichester 002D
- Chichester 014E
- Chichester 011A
- Chichester 001A
- Chichester 005B
- Chichester 007A
- Chichester 002C
- Chichester 006E
- Chichester 007C