Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Hammond is the nearest published school at 911 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH2 4HB
Gowy Rural · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chester
- 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 4HB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 4
- Latitude
- 53.223359
- Longitude
- -2.856565
- British National Grid easting
- 342,909
- British National Grid northing
- 369,931
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
- E04012572
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00092609
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022F · E01018359
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022 · E02003794
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cottage, Fox Covert Lane, Picton, Chester, CH2 4HB | 15 June 2012 | £233,500 |
| The Cottage, Fox Covert Lane, Picton, Chester, CH2 4HB | 13 June 2008 | £292,500 |
| The Cottage, Fox Covert Lane, Picton, Chester, CH2 4HB | 27 September 2002 | £181,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 911 m
The Hammond
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Acresfield Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Upton-by-Chester High School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 166
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 103
- Other theft 13
- Public order 12
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- CH2 4 residents
- 8,097
3 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH2 4 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
12
within 5 km
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
2.1 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
2.6 km
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
3.6 km
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
3.9 km
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
3.9 km
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
4.0 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
4.0 km
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
4.0 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
4.0 km
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
4.1 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
4.4 km
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
4.9 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
- 0.8 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Hoole Bank
- 0.8 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Hoole Bank
- 0.8 miles
High School
BCT · Upton
- 0.8 miles
Tewkesbury Close
BCT · Upton
- 0.8 miles
Tewkesbury Close
BCT · Upton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 022F, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,455 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- 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
166 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 103 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.