Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Hammond is the nearest published school at 567 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH2 4ZA
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 4ZA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH2
- Postcode sector
- CH2 4
- Latitude
- 53.214156
- Longitude
- -2.847531
- British National Grid easting
- 343,500
- British National Grid northing
- 368,900
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
- E00092602
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022E · E01018358
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 567 m
The Hammond
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Mickle Trafford Village School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 273
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 151
- Public order 31
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Other theft 19
- Burglary 12
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
12
within 5 km straight-line
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
2.1 km
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
2.5 km
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
3.0 km
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
3.0 km
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
3.6 km
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
3.7 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
3.7 km
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
3.7 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
3.7 km
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
3.9 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
4.1 km
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Hoole Bank
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Hoole Bank
- 0.5 miles
Trafford House Farm
BCT · Mickle Trafford
- 0.5 miles
Trafford House Farm
BCT · Mickle Trafford
- 0.5 miles
Holly House
BCT · Guilden Sutton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 022E, 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
25,693 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
273 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 151 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.