Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Esland Daven School is the nearest published school at 191 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW12 2DN
Congleton East · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Congleton
- 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 2DN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 2
- Latitude
- 53.168372
- Longitude
- -2.201557
- British National Grid easting
- 386,623
- British National Grid northing
- 363,490
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Davenshaw Mill, Buxton Road, Congleton, CW12 2DN | 30 August 2019 | £350,000 |
| 3, Buxton Road, Congleton, CW12 2DN | 2 January 2003 | £16,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 191 m
Esland Daven School
Other independent special school
- 335 m
Opal Education
Other independent special school
- 499 m
Buglawton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,831
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 891
- Public order 233
- Anti social behaviour 135
- Criminal damage and arson 117
- Shoplifting 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- CW12 2 residents
- 5,836
2 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CW12 2 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
3
within 5 km
LAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
BROMLEY ROAD, CONGLETON, CW12 1QG
ODS code N81052
655 m
MEADOWSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
MOUNTBATTEN WAY, CONGLETON, CW12 1DY
ODS code N81118
753 m
READESMOOR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
29-29A WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CW12 1JP
ODS code N81027
1.1 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
King Street
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.1 miles
King Street
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.1 miles
Lambs House School
BCT · Buglawton
- 0.2 miles
Fox Street
BCT · Congleton
- 0.2 miles
Fox Street
BCT · Congleton
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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
1,831 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 891 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.