Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Queen's School is the nearest published school at 223 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH1 2BS
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 2BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2007
- Terminated
- 1 January 2008
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH1
- Postcode sector
- CH1 2
- Latitude
- 53.190623
- Longitude
- -2.894093
- British National Grid easting
- 340,358
- British National Grid northing
- 366,320
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
- 223 m
The Queen's School
Other independent school
- 278 m
Abbey School for Exceptional Children
Other independent special school
- 660 m
The Grosvenor Park Church of England Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,907
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,929
- Shoplifting 694
- Public order 646
- Drugs 371
- Other theft 333
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH1 2 residents
- 1,397
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
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 straight-line
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
164 m
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
486 m
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
505 m
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
505 m
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
505 m
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
505 m
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
541 m
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
834 m
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
1.2 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
2.0 km
LACHE HEALTH CENTRE
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
2.3 km
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
2.7 km
WESTERN AVE MEDICAL CTRE
GORDON ROAD, BLACON, BLACON,CHESTER, CHESTER, CH1 5PA
ODS code N81626
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Watergate Street Coach Stop
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
Chester Northgate
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
New Crane Street Coach Stop
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
Chester Northgate
BCT · Chester
- 0.1 miles
Nicholas Street Mews
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,907 published events cover 12 months, averaging 408.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,929 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.