Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Abbey Gate College is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH3 6EU
Farndon · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Farndon
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH3 6EU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 6
- Latitude
- 53.135810
- Longitude
- -2.845704
- British National Grid easting
- 343,519
- British National Grid northing
- 360,183
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Farndon · E05012214
- Parish or community
- E04012566
- Westminster constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury · E14001164
- Output area
- E00092473
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 046A · E01018335
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 046 · E02003809
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
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Abbey Gate College
Other independent school
- 2.0 km
Saighton Church of England Primary School & Pre-School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Eccleston CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 4.5
- CH3 6 residents
- 8,248
7 female, 2 male
Age bands in CH3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
1,748 residents
696 residents
2,292 residents
2,096 residents
1,388 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH3 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Platt's Lane
BCT · Bruera
- 0.3 miles
Platt's Lane
BCT · Bruera
- 1.0 miles
Aldford Bridge
BCT · Aldford
- 1.0 miles
Aldford Bridge
BCT · Aldford
- 1.1 miles
Cheaveley Hall Cottages
BCT · Huntington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 046A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,037 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
- 0
- 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
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.