Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Y Foel is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH7 5QJ
Cilcain · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cilcain
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East
- Postcode district
- CH7
- Postcode sector
- CH7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH7 5QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2008
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH7
- Postcode sector
- CH7 5
- Latitude
- 53.198963
- Longitude
- -3.214309
- British National Grid easting
- 318,979
- British National Grid northing
- 367,563
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Cilcain · W05001582
- Parish or community
- W04000184
- Westminster constituency
- Clwyd East · W07000094
- Output area
- W00001462
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 006D · W01000272
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 006 · W02000063
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.8 km
Ysgol Y Foel
Welsh establishment
- 3.0 km
Ysgol Rhos Helyg
Welsh establishment
- 3.1 km
Nannerch Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 21
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH7 5 residents
- 6,591
Age bands in CH7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
795 residents
552 residents
1,024 residents
2,051 residents
1,925 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Hendre
- 0.3 miles
Mill Terrace
BCT · Hendre
- 0.8 miles
Llys Alun
BCT · Rhydymwyn
- 0.9 miles
Star Crossing
BCT · Penbedw
- 0.9 miles
Star Crossing
BCT · Penbedw
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
21 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.