Cheshire West and Chester population, 2001–2025
Cheshire West and Chester has an estimated population of 373,951 (mid-2025), up 16.1% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Cheshire West and Chester local authority area. The newest year is provisional: when ONS published mid-2025 it revised the mid-2024 figure for 348 of the 361 UK authorities, so read the last point on any of these charts as the current best estimate rather than a settled number.
Year by year
| Year | Population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 373,951 | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 370,951 | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 366,508 | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 361,841 | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 357,730 | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 354,738 | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 353,362 | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 350,076 | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 346,040 | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 342,424 | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 339,181 | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 336,437 | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 333,476 | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 331,231 | +0.5% |
| 2011 | 329,526 | -0.0% |
| 2010 | 329,553 | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 329,116 | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 329,353 | -0.0% |
| 2007 | 329,364 | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 328,358 | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 327,169 | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 325,496 | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 324,378 | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 322,657 | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 322,154 | — |
Food businesses
Cheshire West and Chester has 305 takeaways, 727 restaurants and cafés and 215 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.42 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 8.2 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
Cheshire West and Chester has 295 hairdressers and beauty salons, 205 pubs and bars, 140 licensed restaurants, 195 takeaways on the ONS business register (2025). Compare across the UK.
Rounded to the nearest 5, which is how ONS protects individual businesses from being identified.