Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 0 secondary schools. Elton Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH2 4JG
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 4JG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2016
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 4
- Latitude
- 53.263365
- Longitude
- -2.835594
- British National Grid easting
- 344,361
- British National Grid northing
- 374,365
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
- E04011176
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00092494
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022C · E01018337
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rose Bank, Post Office Lane, Thornton Le Moors, Chester, CH2 4JG | 12 March 2010 | £202,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Elton Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
The Oaks Community Primary School
Community school
- 3.7 km
St Bernard's Roman Catholic Primary & Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Other theft 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Public order 3
- Vehicle crime 3
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
4.4 km
YORK ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
YORK ROAD, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 0DB
ODS code N81063
4.6 km
WESTMINSTER SURGERY
16-18 CHURCH PARADE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 2ER
ODS code N81607
4.8 km
OLD HALL SURGERY
24-26 STANNEY LANE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 9AD
ODS code N81117
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Thornton-le-Moors
- 0.2 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Thornton-le-Moors
- 0.2 miles
Village Green
BCT · Thornton-le-Moors
- 0.2 miles
Village Green
BCT · Thornton-le-Moors
- 0.3 miles
Thornton Green Lane
BCT · Thornton-le-Moors
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 022C, 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
9,727 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.