Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Opal Education is the nearest published school at 109 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW12 1NZ
Congleton West · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Congleton West
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW12 1NZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- 1 August 2016
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 1
- Latitude
- 53.172142
- Longitude
- -2.199809
- British National Grid easting
- 386,741
- British National Grid northing
- 363,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Congleton West · E05008619
- Parish or community
- E04013181
- Westminster constituency
- Congleton · E14001178
- Output area
- E00184567
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 027D · E01018403
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 027 · E02003816
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 CW12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 109 m
Opal Education
Other independent special school
- 258 m
Esland Daven School
Other independent special school
- 392 m
Buglawton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,644
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 789
- Public order 209
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Shoplifting 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW12 1 residents
- 4,860
Age bands in CW12 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
662 residents
426 residents
1,191 residents
1,220 residents
950 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
LAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
BROMLEY ROAD, CONGLETON, CW12 1QG
ODS code N81052
1.1 km
MEADOWSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
MOUNTBATTEN WAY, CONGLETON, CW12 1DY
ODS code N81118
1.1 km
READESMOOR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
29-29A WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CW12 1JP
ODS code N81027
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Haworth Avenue
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.1 miles
Haworth Avenue
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.2 miles
St John's Road
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.2 miles
St John's Road
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.2 miles
Lambs House School
BCT · Buglawton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 027D, 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
28,214 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,644 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 789 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.