Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Eaton Bank Academy is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW12 2JA
Gawsworth · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gawsworth
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW12 2JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW12
- Postcode sector
- CW12 2
- Latitude
- 53.190280
- Longitude
- -2.215922
- British National Grid easting
- 385,670
- British National Grid northing
- 365,930
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Gawsworth · E05008628
- Parish or community
- E04013184
- Westminster constituency
- Macclesfield · E14001347
- Output area
- E00184604
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 020F · E01034662
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 020 · E02003872
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
- 1.9 km
Eaton Bank Academy
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Havannah Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Opal Education
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 76
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 37
- Anti social behaviour 14
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 4
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
MEADOWSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
MOUNTBATTEN WAY, CONGLETON, CW12 1DY
ODS code N81118
2.8 km
READESMOOR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
29-29A WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CW12 1JP
ODS code N81027
3.0 km
LAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
BROMLEY ROAD, CONGLETON, CW12 1QG
ODS code N81052
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Smithy Lane
BCT · Hulme Walfield
- 0.9 miles
Tanhouse Farm
BCT · Eaton
- 1.0 miles
Moss Lane
BCT · Eaton
- 1.0 miles
Havannah Lane
BCT · Eaton
- 1.0 miles
Tidnock Avenue
BCT · Lower Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 020F, 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
21,766 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
76 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 37 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.