Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Buglawton Primary School is the nearest published school at 174 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW12 2AP
Congleton East · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Congleton East
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW12 2AP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 2
- Latitude
- 53.170267
- Longitude
- -2.197422
- British National Grid easting
- 386,900
- British National Grid northing
- 363,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Congleton East · E05008618
- Parish or community
- E04013181
- Westminster constituency
- Congleton · E14001178
- Output area
- E00092823
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 026A · E01018395
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 026 · E02003815
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
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 174 m
Buglawton Primary School
Community school
- 255 m
Opal Education
Other independent special school
- 280 m
Esland Daven School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,662
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 801
- Public order 212
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Criminal damage and arson 110
- Shoplifting 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW12 2 residents
- 5,836
Age bands in CW12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
992 residents
494 residents
1,462 residents
1,679 residents
1,425 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
978 m
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
- 0.0 miles
St John's Road
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.0 miles
St John's Road
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.1 miles
Lambs House School
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.2 miles
Haworth Avenue
BCT · Buglawton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 026A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,560 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,662 published events cover 12 months, averaging 138.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 801 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.