Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Plas Derwen is the nearest published school at 309 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH5 1DX
Shotton West · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Shotton West
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside
- Postcode district
- CH5
- Postcode sector
- CH5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH5 1DX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH5
- Postcode sector
- CH5 1
- Latitude
- 53.214432
- Longitude
- -3.040745
- British National Grid easting
- 330,598
- British National Grid northing
- 369,101
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Shotton West · W05001613
- Parish or community
- W04000208
- Westminster constituency
- Alyn and Deeside · W07000082
- Output area
- W00001809
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 009F · W01000337
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 009 · W02000066
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 CH5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 309 m
Plas Derwen
Welsh establishment
- 328 m
Ven. Edward Morgan R.C. Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.2 km
Queens Ferry C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,772
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 674
- Anti social behaviour 282
- Shoplifting 205
- Criminal damage and arson 151
- Public order 138
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- CH5 1 residents
- 8,172
23 female, 6 male
Age bands in CH5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
1,328 residents
812 residents
2,241 residents
2,236 residents
1,767 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH5 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
- 32%
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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
DEESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
17-21 CHESTER ROAD EAST, SHOTTON, DEESIDE, CH5 1QA
ODS code W91039
401 m
SHOTTON LANE SURGERY
38 SHOTTON LANE, SHOTTON, DEESIDE, CH5 1QT
ODS code W91036
635 m
ST MARKS DEE VIEW SURGERY
FRON ROAD, CONNAH'S QUAY, DEESIDE, CH5 4PJ
ODS code W91060
684 m
THE QUAY HEALTH CENTRE
FRON ROAD, CONNAH'S QUAY, DEESIDE, CH5 4PJ
ODS code W91607
684 m
THE QUAY SURGERY
THE QUAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRON ROAD, CONNAH'S QUAY, DEESIDE, CH5 4PJ
ODS code W91040
684 m
QUEENSFERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PIERCE STREET, QUEENSFERRY, DEESIDE, CH5 1SY
ODS code W91051
1.4 km
THE STABLES MEDICAL
27 GLYNNE WAY, HAWARDEN, DEESIDE, CH5 3PA
ODS code W91015
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chester Rd West
BCT · Shotton
- 0.1 miles
Wepre War Memorial
BCT · Wepre
- 0.1 miles
Chester Rd West
BCT · Shotton
- 0.1 miles
Wepre War Memorial
BCT · Wepre
- 0.1 miles
Shotton High Level Rail Station
RLY · Shotton
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,772 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 674 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.