Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Drury C.P. School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH5 3ND
Pen-y-ffordd · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Deeside
- Ward
- Pen-y-ffordd
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside
- Postcode district
- CH5
- Postcode sector
- CH5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH5 3ND
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH5
- Postcode sector
- CH5 3
- Latitude
- 53.167695
- Longitude
- -3.037775
- British National Grid easting
- 330,721
- British National Grid northing
- 363,899
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Pen-y-ffordd · W05001609
- Parish or community
- W04000996
- Westminster constituency
- Alyn and Deeside · W07000082
- Output area
- W00001749
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 018C · W01000327
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 018 · W02000075
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Providence Cottage, Serenity Lane, Dobshill, Deeside, CH5 3ND | 20 November 2000 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.1 km
Drury C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.1 km
St Johns the Baptist V.A. Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.3 km
Hawarden High School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 119
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Other theft 10
- Public order 10
- Criminal damage and arson 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- CH5 3 residents
- 10,326
1 female, 3 male
Age bands in CH5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,657 residents
1,027 residents
2,150 residents
2,994 residents
2,233 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH5 3 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
- 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 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
THE STABLES MEDICAL
27 GLYNNE WAY, HAWARDEN, DEESIDE, CH5 3PA
ODS code W91015
2.1 km
MARCHES MEDICAL PRACTICE
83 MAIN ROAD, BROUGHTON, CHESTER, CH4 0NR
ODS code W91021
3.0 km
BRADLEY'S PRACTICE
BUCKLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, ALLTAMI ROAD, BUCKLEY, CH7 3PG
ODS code W00076
3.2 km
ROSENEATH MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, ALLTAMI ROAD, BUCKLEY, CH7 3PG
ODS code W91018
3.2 km
QUEENSFERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PIERCE STREET, QUEENSFERRY, DEESIDE, CH5 1SY
ODS code W91051
4.4 km
SHOTTON LANE SURGERY
38 SHOTTON LANE, SHOTTON, DEESIDE, CH5 1QT
ODS code W91036
4.6 km
DEESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
17-21 CHESTER ROAD EAST, SHOTTON, DEESIDE, CH5 1QA
ODS code W91039
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dobshill Roundabout
BCT · Dobs Hill
- 0.1 miles
Dobshill Roundabout
BCT · Dobs Hill
- 0.2 miles
Dobshill Roundabout
BCT · Dobs Hill
- 0.2 miles
Dobshill Roundabout
BCT · Dobs Hill
- 0.5 miles
Dobs Hill Hospital
BCT · Dobs Hill
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
119 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.