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A town of 15,504 in Cheshire, North West.
Alsager grades B overall against UK towns: better than 62% of UK towns, and #25 of 46 in Cheshire. Its strongest subject is jobs & income (B): mean household income £53,492; 2% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Its weakest is walkability (C−): 9% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. The median home sold for £265,000 in the last three years, 5 times what households in the Cheshire East council area earn in a year.
The 3 things Alsager does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Alsager is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic England lists 9 buildings inside Alsager’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade II*.
10% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Alsager.
For Alsager, that is above both Cheshire’s towns (21%) and England’s towns (18%). 8.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half the people of Alsager are older than 47.2.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Alsager | Cheshire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 25% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 25% |
| 65+ | 27% | 21% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.3% | 5.7% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 38% | 34% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Cheshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Three of its 7 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cranberry AcademyLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 434 | B |
| Alsager SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,528 | B− |
| Excalibur Primary SchoolTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 242 | A |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Alsager has 9 listed buildings inside its built-up area on Historic England’s list: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II*. 10% of its homes were built before 1919.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 34% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Alsager sits below both Cheshire’s towns (43%) and England’s towns (45%) on this measure. The car carried 89% of commuters at the census.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Women here live to 85.1 on average and men to 82.2 (2019–23). The nearest A&E to Alsager is Leighton Hospital, 7.1 miles away. 2 GP practices serve the town; 87% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey.
| Census 2021 | Alsager | Cheshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 82% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 5.4% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 18% | 18% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
That puts Alsager above both Cheshire’s towns (68%) and England’s towns (61%). 9% of households rent privately.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £360,950 | 323 |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | 295 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 121 |
| Flat or maisonette | £95,250 | 42 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
On this, Alsager is above both Cheshire’s towns (20.3) and England’s towns (22). Police recorded 778 crimes inside Alsager’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 102 reports of anti-social behaviour. For its size, Alsager records less crime per resident than 77% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Alsager. Best known first.
Historic house · National TrustLittle Moreton Hall3.2 km outside town, to the northeast
Castle · National TrustMow Cop Castle4.4 km outside town, to the east
CastleRode Hall1.1 km outside town, to the northeast
MuseumEnglesea Brook Museum of Methodism4.2 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
9 listed buildings in Alsager.
Townhouse Farmhouse: Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · School Buildings and Schoolmasters House: Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alsager War Memorial: Photo: Dominic Nelson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Church of St Mary Magdalene: Photo: Jonathan Hutchins · CC BY-SA 2.0
8 notable people were born in Alsager.
Lee Bell: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shaun Miller: Franziska, CC BY 2.0 · Lloyd Saxton: Anders Henrikson, CC BY 2.0 · William Forrester: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alsager | 15,504 | — | B | B | B− | B |
| Rode Heath | 1,901 | 1.5 | — | A− | A− | B |
| Scholar Green | 2,095 | 2.5 | — | B− | A− | B |
| Talke and Talke Pits | 3,436 | 2.5 | C | A− | C | C− |
| Kidsgrove | 15,598 | 2.8 | C− | A− | C | C− |
| Audley | 1,984 | 3 | — | A− | C | C− |
| Bignall End | 3,184 | 3 | C+ | B | B+ | C |
| Winterley | 1,371 | 3.1 | — | C | A− | B |
Rode Heath, Scholar Green, Audley and Winterley have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades B−. Police recorded 778 crimes inside Alsager’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, 50% of them violence and sexual offences, a police category that includes harassment and stalking.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Cheshire, England
Alsager is a built-up area of 15,504 people, in the Cheshire East council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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