CH3 6NL

Farndon · Cheshire West and Chester · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Chester
Ward: Farndon
Local authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency: Chester South and Eddisbury
Postcode district: CH3
Postcode sector: CH3 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CH3 6PN	57 m
CH3 6RQ	64 m
CH3 6QA	69 m
CH3 6NJ	88 m
CH3 6RH	150 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CH3 6NL
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: CH
Postcode district: CH3
Postcode sector: CH3 6
Latitude: 53.083236
Longitude: -2.871292
British National Grid easting: 341,736
British National Grid northing: 354,355

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: E04012581
Westminster constituency: Chester South and Eddisbury · E14001164
Output area: E00092502
Lower layer super output area: Cheshire West and Chester 047A · E01018339
Middle layer super output area: Cheshire West and Chester 047 · E02003810

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

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Property

At this postcode

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42 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Ash Paddock, Barton Road, Farndon, Chester, CH3 6NL	14 February 2025	£1,125,000
Cromwell House, Barton Road, Farndon, Chester, CH3 6NL	29 August 2023	£596,000
Whitehaven, Barton Road, Farndon, Chester, CH3 6NL	12 January 2023	£461,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 5
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Farndon Primary School

Community school
554 m
Holt's Community Primary School

Welsh establishment
938 m
St Pauls Voluntary Aided Primary School

Welsh establishment
4.7 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 116
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 53
Anti social behaviour 19
Other theft 15
Criminal damage and arson 8
Public order 6

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 77
Postcode households: 35
Residents per household: 2.2
CH3 6 residents: 8,248

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%

This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH3 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

How to read these estimates

The standard postcode headcounts and the commissioned age table are separate ONS outputs. Small counts are disclosure-controlled, and totals can differ slightly between tables. Coverage is England and Wales only.

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+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 86.1%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 86.1%
Gigabit-capable: 86.1%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 36.1%

Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality reasons.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Crewe Lane End

BCT · Farndon
0.0 miles
Crewe Lane End

BCT · Farndon
0.0 miles
Lime Tree Drive

BCT · Farndon
0.1 miles
Starling Close

BCT · Farndon
0.1 miles
Church Lane

BCT · Farndon
0.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 047A, 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

27,128 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 10 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 2 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: 2
Medium risk addresses: 1
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

A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.

Property market

Recorded sales

The five-year median is £429,250 from 6 recorded sales in CH3 6NL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Cheshire West and Chester is £269,039 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.

Schools

Published establishments

5 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Farndon Primary School is the nearest published school at 554 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

Published police records

116 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.