Blacon · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Dee Point Primary School
Community school
Highfield Community Primary School
Community school
The Arches Community Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
419 residents
3,259 residents
2,100 residents
1,139 residents
726 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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within 5 km
GORDON ROAD, BLACON, BLACON,CHESTER, CHESTER, CH1 5PA
ODS code N81626
905 m
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
1.8 km
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
1.9 km
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
2.1 km
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
2.1 km
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
2.1 km
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
2.1 km
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
2.2 km
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
2.5 km
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
2.6 km
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
3.2 km
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
3.4 km
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
3.5 km
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
4.1 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.
Employment Park
BCT · Chester
Employment Park
BCT · Chester
B&Q
BCT · Chester
B&Q
BCT · Chester
Park & Ride
BCT · Chester
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 034D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,256 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
45 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Dee Point Primary School is the nearest published school at 487 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,726 published events cover 12 months, averaging 143.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 736 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.