Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 7 secondary schools. Newton Primary School is the nearest published school at 335 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH2 2LE
Newton & Hoole · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chester
- Ward
- Newton & Hoole
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH2 2LE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 2
- Latitude
- 53.205481
- Longitude
- -2.874924
- British National Grid easting
- 341,659
- British National Grid northing
- 367,957
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Newton & Hoole · E05012228
- Parish or community
- E43000272
- Westminster constituency
- Chester North and Neston · E14001163
- Output area
- E00092643
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 027A · E01018364
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 027 · E02003796
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 CH2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Norfolk Road, Newton, Chester, CH2 2LE | 22 November 2002 | £81,650 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 7
- 335 m
Newton Primary School
Community school
- 417 m
The Firs School
Other independent school
- 505 m
St Martin's Academy Chester
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,056
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,433
- Public order 400
- Drugs 220
- Anti social behaviour 203
- Other theft 197
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CH2 2 residents
- 7,847
4 female, 10 male
Age bands in CH2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,218 residents
877 residents
2,196 residents
2,082 residents
1,589 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH2 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
335 m
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
1.1 km
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
1.4 km
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
1.6 km
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
1.7 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
1.7 km
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
1.7 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
1.7 km
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
1.8 km
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
2.0 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
2.1 km
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
2.6 km
WESTERN AVE MEDICAL CTRE
GORDON ROAD, BLACON, BLACON,CHESTER, CHESTER, CH1 5PA
ODS code N81626
3.8 km
LACHE HEALTH CENTRE
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
4.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Newton Lane
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Newton Lane
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Lime Wood Close
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Grasmere Road
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Grasmere Road
BCT · Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 027A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,749 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
3,056 published events cover 12 months, averaging 254.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,433 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.