15/12/2020

Chester Data Dashboard

Footfall Figures

Week 50, Comparison of 2019 and 2020 (Sunday 6th December 2020 - Saturday 12th December 2020)

90,000 77,754 80,000

70,000 60,956 58,396 59,307 60,000 50,267 49,561 47,420 50,000 43,772 38,269 39,681 40,619 36,490 36,398 40,000 31,052 30,000

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(Source: Springboard) 15/12/2020

Vacancy Rates

Vacancy Rate % Chester City Centre October 2020 Figures: 20.00 18.00 18.0 % 108 18.00 16.83 16.50 Vacancy Rate Vacant Units 16.00 14.40 14.00 13.00 increase from 12.26 12.00 1 .5% April 2020

10.00 April 2020 Figures: 8.00

6.00 16.5% 99 Vacancy Rate Vacant Units 4.00 increase from 2.00 2 .1% October 2019

0.00 Local Data Company

National Vacancy Rate Apr-18 Oct-18 Apr-19 Oct-19 Apr-20 Oct-20 13% H1 2020:

Hotel Occupancy

Hotel Occupancy data is available upon request.

STEAM Headlines

12.9% £0.7bn 14 million Increase since 2015 of the Total of economic impact from Tourists visited Chester City number of FTE jobs in the the Chester City area in 2018 borough supported by the area in 2018 visitor economy

96% 22.8% 9,766 Of total visitor numbers to the the Chester City area accounts FTE Visitor Economy jobs were

borough are for in the economic impact of supported in the Chester City day visitors the borough’s visitor economy area in 2018

36.4 million

Tourists visited Cheshire West £2.12bn 25,469 and Chester in 2018 which is a Total of economic impact of FTE Visitor Economy jobs were 12.1% increase the visitor economy in supported in Cheshire West since 2015 and a Cheshire West and Chester in and Chester in 2018 44.8% increase 2018 since 2009 15/12/2020

Housing

Average Annual House Prices 2016 -2020 £270,000 £266,626 £259,723 £265,624 £260,000 £251,070 £250,000 £242,263 £252,781 £239,261 £247,548 £240,000 £240,042

£230,000 £230,645 £220,000

£210,000 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Chester Cheshire West and Chester

(Source: Hometrack. Average over the half year January - June for each year shown. Updated: 17/08/2020)

Chester figures have been collated from the following individual old ward boundary data: Blacon, Boughton, Chester City, Chester Villages, Dodleston and Huntington, Garden Quarter, Great Boughton, Handbridge Park, Hoole, Lache, Newton, Saughall and Mollington, Upton.

Average Weekly Rental Values by No. of Bedrooms £300 £272

£250 £273 £198 £200 £166 £186 £150 £125 £147 £100 £117

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Chester Cheshire West and Chester

(Source: Hometrack. Annual median over the full year July 2019 - June 2020. Updated: 17/08/2020)

Chester figures have been collated from the following individual old ward boundary data: Blacon, Boughton, Chester City, Chester Villages, Dodleston and Huntington, Garden Quarter, Great Boughton, Handbridge Park, Hoole, Lache, Newton, Saughall and Mollington, Upton.

Total number of sales around 30% completed in the borough during the year to from 5,870 during the June 2020 was year to June 2019 and 6,180 during the year to 4,142 June 2018.

(Source: Hometrack. Note: Number of house sales for 2020 has been affected by Covid-19)