Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Tarvin Primary School is the nearest published school at 800 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH3 8HQ
Tarvin & Kelsall · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tarvin & Kelsall
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH3 8HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2003
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH3
- Postcode sector
- CH3 8
- Latitude
- 53.185052
- Longitude
- -2.764649
- British National Grid easting
- 349,000
- British National Grid northing
- 365,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Tarvin & Kelsall · E05012240
- Parish or community
- E04012574
- Westminster constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury · E14001164
- Output area
- E00092656
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 046B · E01018369
- 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
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 800 m
Tarvin Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Duddon St Peter's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.6 km
Barrow CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 61
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 27
- Public order 10
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH3 8 residents
- 4,547
Age bands in CH3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
787 residents
375 residents
942 residents
1,317 residents
1,267 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
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Platts Lane
BCT · Tarvin
- 0.3 miles
Austins Hill
BCT · Tarvin
- 0.4 miles
Cross Lanes
BCT · Tarvin
- 0.4 miles
Cross Lanes
BCT · Tarvin
- 0.6 miles
Broomheath Lane
BCT · Tarvin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 046B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,987 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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
61 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 27 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.