Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Elton Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH2 4FP
Gowy Rural · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gowy Rural
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH2 4FP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 4
- Latitude
- 53.284152
- Longitude
- -2.800901
- British National Grid easting
- 346,701
- British National Grid northing
- 376,651
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Gowy Rural · E05012216
- Parish or community
- E04012981
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00188916
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 011D · E01018552
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 011 · E02003849
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.5 km
Elton Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Helsby Hillside Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Horn's Mill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 108
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Burglary 12
- Public order 10
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH2 4 residents
- 8,097
Age bands in CH2 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,312 residents
940 residents
2,097 residents
2,087 residents
1,639 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Ince & Elton Rail Station
RSE · Ince
- 0.8 miles
Holm Drive
BCT · Elton
- 0.8 miles
Ince & Elton Rail Station
RSE · Ince
- 0.8 miles
Ince & Elton Rail Station
RLY · Ince
- 0.9 miles
Orchard Park Lane
BCT · Elton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 011D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,079 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
108 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.