Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Winefrides R.C. School is the nearest published school at 782 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH8 7UF
Holywell Central · Flintshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Holywell Central
- Local authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East
- Postcode district
- CH8
- Postcode sector
- CH8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH8 7UF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH8
- Postcode sector
- CH8 7
- Latitude
- 53.270281
- Longitude
- -3.218370
- British National Grid easting
- 318,843
- British National Grid northing
- 375,501
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Flintshire · W06000005
- Electoral ward
- Holywell Central · W05001596
- Parish or community
- W04000192
- Westminster constituency
- Clwyd East · W07000094
- Output area
- W00001631
- Lower layer super output area
- Flintshire 003E · W01000304
- Middle layer super output area
- Flintshire 003 · W02000060
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 CH8
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 782 m
St Winefrides R.C. School
Welsh establishment
- 790 m
Ysgol Treffynnon
Welsh establishment
- 878 m
Ysgol Gwenffrwd
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 745
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 293
- Anti social behaviour 135
- Criminal damage and arson 80
- Shoplifting 65
- Public order 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- 0 female, 8 male
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- CH8 7 residents
- 9,319
Age bands in CH8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- 1,865 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- 1,077 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- 2,221 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- 2,526 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
- 1,778 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH8 7 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+
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
BODOWEN SURGERY
HALKYN ROAD, HOLYWELL, CH8 7GA
ODS code W91029
55 m
PANTON SURGERY
HALKYN ROAD, FLINTSHIRE, HOLYWELL, CH8 7TZ
ODS code W91636
95 m
PENDRE SURGERY
COLESHILL STREET, HOLYWELL, CH8 7RS
ODS code W91005
258 m
PENNANT SURGERY
BAGILLT STREET, OFF HIGH STREET, HOLYWELL, CH8 7TR
ODS code W91037
337 m
Nearby transport
- 117 m
Holywell Hospital
BCT · Holywell
- 135 m
Holywell Hospital
BCT · Holywell
- 167 m
Holywell Hospital
BCT · Holywell
- 288 m
Holywell Bus Station Stand 2
BCS · Holywell
- 294 m
Holywell Bus Station Stand 4
BCS · Holywell
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
745 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 293 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.