Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. iMap Centre is the nearest published school at 4 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH3 7JA
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
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH3 7JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 7
- Latitude
- 53.217092
- Longitude
- -2.789062
- British National Grid easting
- 347,408
- British National Grid northing
- 369,182
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
- E04011045
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00092332
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022A · E01018308
- 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 CH3
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 4 m
iMap Centre
Other independent special school
- 790 m
Barrow CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other theft 4
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH3 7 residents
- 6,747
Age bands in CH3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- 1,059 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- 659 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- 1,226 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- 1,978 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
- 1,852 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
KELSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
7 GREEN HILL ROAD, KELSALL, TARPORLEY, CW6 0SN
ODS code N81120
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 349 m
Barrowmore Hospital
BCT · Broomhill
- 497 m
Irons Lane
BCT · Hollowmoor Heath
- 524 m
Letter Box
BCT · Broomhill
- 547 m
Lampits Lane
BCT · Great Barrow
- 800 m
Mill Lane
BCT · Great Barrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 022A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,891 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.