Property market
The five-year median is £180,000 from 5 recorded sales in CW1 5LB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cheshire East is £303,387 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
CW1 5LB
Crewe East · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crewe
- Ward
- Crewe East
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Postcode district
- CW1
- Postcode sector
- CW1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW1 5LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW1
- Postcode sector
- CW1 5
- Latitude
- 53.101427
- Longitude
- -2.424649
- British National Grid easting
- 371,665
- British National Grid northing
- 356,108
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Crewe East · E05008621
- Parish or community
- E04012281
- Westminster constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich · E14001185
- Output area
- E00093359
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 038B · E01018500
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 038 · E02003829
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 CW1
Property
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Oaktree Drive, Crewe, CW1 5LB | 5 September 2025 | £180,000 |
| 25, Oaktree Drive, Crewe, CW1 5LB | 17 August 2022 | £208,000 |
| 14, Oaktree Drive, Crewe, CW1 5LB | 22 July 2022 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 7
- 424 m
Hungerford Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 622 m
Sir William Stanier School
Academy sponsor led
- 823 m
Brierley Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,141
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,221
- Shoplifting 446
- Public order 388
- Anti social behaviour 220
- Other theft 185
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 66
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- CW1 5 residents
- 9,946
34 female, 32 male
Age bands in CW1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,358 residents
920 residents
2,440 residents
2,974 residents
2,700 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CW1 5 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
HUNGERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
SCHOOL CRESCENT, CREWE, CW1 5HA
ODS code N81044
424 m
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
GROSVENOR STREET, CREWE, CW1 3HB
ODS code N81068
2.0 km
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
2.0 km
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
2.0 km
HASLINGTON SURGERY
CREWE ROAD, HASLINGTON, CREWE, CW1 5QY
ODS code N81043
2.0 km
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oak Tree Drive
BCT · Sydney
- 0.1 miles
Rochester Cresent
BCT · Sydney
- 0.1 miles
The Flying Lady
BCT · Sydney
- 0.1 miles
The Flying Lady
BCT · Sydney
- 0.1 miles
Tennyson Avenue
BCT · Sydney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 038B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,830 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 7 secondary schools. Hungerford Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 424 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,141 published events cover 12 months, averaging 261.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,221 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.