Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. Lache Primary School is the nearest published school at 550 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH4 8ER
Lache · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lache
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury
- Postcode district
- CH4
- Postcode sector
- CH4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH4 8ER
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH4
- Postcode sector
- CH4 8
- Latitude
- 53.168696
- Longitude
- -2.916944
- British National Grid easting
- 338,800
- British National Grid northing
- 363,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Lache · E05012221
- Parish or community
- E43000272
- Westminster constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury · E14001164
- Output area
- E00092581
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 044D · E01018354
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 044 · E02003808
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 CH4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 550 m
Lache Primary School
Academy converter
- 586 m
St Clare's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 607 m
Kings Moat Community Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,026
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 472
- Public order 123
- Anti social behaviour 97
- Criminal damage and arson 81
- Other theft 68
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH4 8 residents
- 11,555
Age bands in CH4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.9%
2,048 residents
1,215 residents
3,102 residents
3,184 residents
1,809 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
LACHE HEALTH CENTRE
HAWTHORN ROAD, LACHE, CHESTER, CH4 8HX
ODS code N81115
575 m
THE HANDBRIDGE MED.CTR.
GREENWAY STREET, HANDBRIDGE, CHESTER, CH4 7JS
ODS code N81101
2.5 km
CITY WALLS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARTINS WAY, CHESTER, CH1 2NR
ODS code N81082
2.9 km
GARDEN LANE MEDICAL CTR.
19 GARDEN LANE, GARDEN LANE, CHESTER, CH1 4EN
ODS code N81081
3.3 km
FOUNTAINS MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81102
3.3 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81080
3.3 km
NORTHGATE VILLAGE SURGERY
FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81121
3.3 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FL, FOUNTAINS HEALTH, DELAMERE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 4DS
ODS code N81079
3.3 km
ST WERBURGH'S MEDICAL PRACTICE HOMELESS
2A GEORGE STREET, CHESTER, CH1 3EQ
ODS code N81655
3.4 km
WESTERN AVE MEDICAL CTRE
GORDON ROAD, BLACON, BLACON,CHESTER, CHESTER, CH1 5PA
ODS code N81626
3.8 km
BOUGHTON MEDICAL GROUP
BOUGHTON HEALTH CENTRE, HOOLE LANE, BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH2 3DP
ODS code N81034
3.8 km
HEATH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEATH LANE, GREAT BOUGHTON, CHESTER, CH3 5UJ
ODS code N81009
4.2 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SHAVINGTON AVENUE, NEWTON LANE, CHESTER, CH2 3RD
ODS code N81046
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Circular Drive
BCT · Lache
- 0.0 miles
Circular Drive
BCT · Lache
- 0.1 miles
Lonsdale Court
BCT · Lache
- 0.1 miles
Whadden Drive
BCT · Lache
- 0.1 miles
Cliveden Road
BCT · Lache
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 044D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,305 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,026 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 472 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.