Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti is the nearest published school at 284 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH6 5AU
Flint: Castle · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Flint: Castle
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside
- Postcode district
- CH6
- Postcode sector
- CH6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH6 5AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH6
- Postcode sector
- CH6 5
- Latitude
- 53.246871
- Longitude
- -3.129925
- British National Grid easting
- 324,700
- British National Grid northing
- 372,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Flint: Castle · W05001587
- Parish or community
- W04000186
- Westminster constituency
- Alyn and Deeside · W07000082
- Output area
- W00001546
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 004A · W01000288
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 004 · W02000061
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 CH6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 284 m
Ysgol Gymraeg Croes Atti
Welsh establishment
- 476 m
Gwynedd C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 567 m
St Mary's R.C. Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,397
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 482
- Shoplifting 313
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Criminal damage and arson 113
- Public order 68
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH6 5 residents
- 13,949
Age bands in CH6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
2,438 residents
1,479 residents
3,729 residents
3,617 residents
2,658 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
ALLT GOCH MEDICAL CENTRE
LON Y BECWS, FLINT, CH6 5UZ
ODS code W91032
485 m
EYTON PLACE SURGERY
FLINT HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, EARL STREET, FLINT, CH6 5ER
ODS code W91046
544 m
THE LAURELS SURGERY
FLINT HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, EARL STREET, FLINT, CH6 5ER
ODS code W91055
544 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Swan Hotel
BCT · Flint
- 0.1 miles
Trelawney Avenue
BCT · Flint
- 0.1 miles
Trelawney Avenue
BCT · Flint
- 0.1 miles
Swan Hotel
BCT · Flint
- 0.1 miles
Park Avenue
BCT · Flint
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,397 published events cover 12 months, averaging 116.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 482 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.