Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 7 secondary schools. Brierley Primary School is the nearest published school at 520 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW2 7EQ
Crewe Central · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Crewe Central
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Postcode district
- CW2
- Postcode sector
- CW2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW2 7EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW2
- Postcode sector
- CW2 7
- Latitude
- 53.095899
- Longitude
- -2.441993
- British National Grid easting
- 370,500
- British National Grid northing
- 355,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Crewe Central · E05008620
- Parish or community
- E04012281
- Westminster constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich · E14001185
- Output area
- E00093172
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 039B · E01018464
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 039 · E02003830
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 CW2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 7
- 520 m
Brierley Primary School
Community school
- 558 m
Crewe Engineering and Design UTC
University technical college
- 581 m
Cheshire Studio School
Studio schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,354
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,254
- Public order 600
- Shoplifting 510
- Drugs 376
- Anti social behaviour 358
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW2 7 residents
- 10,003
Age bands in CW2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.1%
1,665 residents
1,177 residents
3,570 residents
2,428 residents
1,102 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
866 m
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
866 m
HUNGERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
SCHOOL CRESCENT, CREWE, CW1 5HA
ODS code N81044
1.0 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
GROSVENOR STREET, CREWE, CW1 3HB
ODS code N81068
1.1 km
HASLINGTON SURGERY
CREWE ROAD, HASLINGTON, CREWE, CW1 5QY
ODS code N81043
3.2 km
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Christadelphian Hall
BCT · Crewe
- 0.1 miles
The Terrace
BCT · Crewe
- 0.1 miles
Market Square
TXR · Crewe
- 0.1 miles
Crewe War Memorial
BCT · Crewe
- 0.1 miles
Derrington Avenue
BCT · Crewe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 039B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,322 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
5,354 published events cover 12 months, averaging 446.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,254 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.