Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Queen's School is the nearest published school at 196 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH1 2AS
Chester City & the Garden Quarter · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston
- Postcode district
- CH1
- Postcode sector
- CH1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH1 2AS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH1
- Postcode sector
- CH1 2
- Latitude
- 53.192302
- Longitude
- -2.895625
- British National Grid easting
- 340,258
- British National Grid northing
- 366,508
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Chester City & the Garden Quarter · E05012211
- Parish or community
- E43000272
- Westminster constituency
- Chester North and Neston · E14001163
- Output area
- E00092438
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 034G · E01035376
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 034 · E02003803
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CH1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 49
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 7
- 196 m
The Queen's School
Other independent school
- 287 m
Abbey School for Exceptional Children
Other independent special school
- 642 m
Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,980
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,922
- Shoplifting 778
- Public order 639
- Drugs 369
- Anti social behaviour 334
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH1 2 residents
- 1,397
38 female, 12 male
Age bands in CH1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 5.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 21.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
109 residents
411 residents
666 residents
368 residents
341 residents
This postcode contained 3.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
88 m
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
336 m
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
359 m
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
359 m
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
359 m
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
359 m
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
409 m
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
1.0 km
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
1.3 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
1.9 km
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
2.2 km
LACHE HEALTH CENTRE
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
2.4 km
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
2.5 km
WESTERN AVE MEDICAL CTRE
GORDON ROAD, BLACON, BLACON,CHESTER, CHESTER, CH1 5PA
ODS code N81626
2.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Chester Northgate
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
Chester Northgate
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
Hunter Street
BCT · Chester
- 0.2 miles
Canal Street
BCT · Chester
- 0.2 miles
New Crane Street Coach Stop
BCT · Chester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 034G, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,709 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,980 published events cover 12 months, averaging 415 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,922 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.