Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 6 secondary schools. Boughton Heath Academy is the nearest published school at 381 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH3 5XU
Great Boughton · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Boughton
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH3 5XU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 5
- Latitude
- 53.184036
- Longitude
- -2.858445
- British National Grid easting
- 342,731
- British National Grid northing
- 365,558
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Great Boughton · E05012217
- Parish or community
- E04012980
- Westminster constituency
- Chester North and Neston · E14001163
- Output area
- E00092405
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 041C · E01018322
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 041 · E02003806
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 CH3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 6
- 381 m
Boughton Heath Academy
Academy converter
- 530 m
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School
Academy converter
- 779 m
Dee Banks School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 762
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 345
- Public order 98
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Other theft 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH3 5 residents
- 12,544
Age bands in CH3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,927 residents
1,164 residents
3,009 residents
3,306 residents
2,935 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
658 m
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
1.5 km
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
2.1 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
2.3 km
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
2.4 km
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
2.6 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
2.6 km
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
2.6 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
2.6 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
2.6 km
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
2.8 km
UPTON VILLAGE SURGERY
WEALSTONE LANE, UPTON, CHESTER, CH2 1HD
ODS code N81100
3.7 km
LACHE HEALTH CENTRE
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's
BCT · Boughton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's
BCT · Boughton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Whites Meadow
BCT · Boughton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Whites Meadow
BCT · Boughton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Belgrave Road
BCT · Boughton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 041C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,269 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
762 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 345 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.