Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. iMap Centre is the nearest published school at 479 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH3 7LQ
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 7LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 7
- Latitude
- 53.214596
- Longitude
- -2.783146
- British National Grid easting
- 347,800
- 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
- E04011045
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00092333
- 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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 479 m
iMap Centre
Other independent special school
- 926 m
Barrow CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 926 m
Barrow 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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.3%
1,059 residents
659 residents
1,226 residents
1,978 residents
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
KELSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
7 GREEN HILL ROAD, KELSALL, TARPORLEY, CW6 0SN
ODS code N81120
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Irons Lane
BCT · Hollowmoor Heath
- 0.2 miles
Barrowmore Hospital
BCT · Broomhill
- 0.3 miles
Hollowmore Heath
BCT · Hollowmoor Heath
- 0.4 miles
Park House
BCT · Hollowmoor Heath
- 0.5 miles
Lampits 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events 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.