Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Drury C.P. School is the nearest published school at 540 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH7 3AJ
Buckley: Bistre East · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Buckley
- Ward
- Buckley: Bistre East
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside
- Postcode district
- CH7
- Postcode sector
- CH7 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH7 3AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH7
- Postcode sector
- CH7 3
- Latitude
- 53.165592
- Longitude
- -3.054148
- British National Grid easting
- 329,623
- British National Grid northing
- 363,681
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Buckley: Bistre East · W05001576
- Parish or community
- W04000182
- Westminster constituency
- Alyn and Deeside · W07000082
- Output area
- W00001443
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 017F · W01000267
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 017 · W02000074
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 CH7
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Buckley Depot, Chester Road, Buckley, CH7 3AJ | 21 December 2015 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 540 m
Drury C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.1 km
St Johns the Baptist V.A. Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.4 km
Mountain Lane C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 375
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 177
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Other theft 29
- Public order 27
- Criminal damage and arson 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- 4 female, 3 male
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- CH7 3 residents
- 7,406
Age bands in CH7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- 1,267 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- 705 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- 1,838 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- 2,067 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
- 1,419 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH7 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+
- 40%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 40%
- Gigabit-capable
- 40%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
BRADLEY'S PRACTICE
BUCKLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, ALLTAMI ROAD, BUCKLEY, CH7 3PG
ODS code W00076
2.3 km
ROSENEATH MEDICAL PRACTICE
BUCKLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, ALLTAMI ROAD, BUCKLEY, CH7 3PG
ODS code W91018
2.3 km
THE STABLES MEDICAL
27 GLYNNE WAY, HAWARDEN, DEESIDE, CH5 3PA
ODS code W91015
2.9 km
MARCHES MEDICAL PRACTICE
83 MAIN ROAD, BROUGHTON, CHESTER, CH4 0NR
ODS code W91021
4.1 km
LEESWOOD SURGERY
QUEEN STREET, LEESWOOD, MOLD, CH7 4RQ
ODS code W91044
4.6 km
SHOTTON LANE SURGERY
38 SHOTTON LANE, SHOTTON, DEESIDE, CH5 1QT
ODS code W91036
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 101 m
Old Cross Keys Farm
BCT · Little Mountain
- 107 m
Old Cross Keys Farm
BCT · Little Mountain
- 121 m
Little Mountain Road
BCT · Little Mountain
- 155 m
Little Mountain Turn
BCT · Little Mountain
- 253 m
Meadow View
BCT · Little Mountain
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
375 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 177 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.