Property market
The five-year median is £240,000 from 11 recorded sales in CW2 8GL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cheshire East is £303,387 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
CW2 8GL
Wistaston · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crewe
- Ward
- Wistaston
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Postcode district
- CW2
- Postcode sector
- CW2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW2 8GL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW2
- Postcode sector
- CW2 8
- Latitude
- 53.089959
- Longitude
- -2.483305
- British National Grid easting
- 367,729
- British National Grid northing
- 354,857
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Wistaston · E05008659
- Parish or community
- E04011027
- Westminster constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich · E14001185
- Output area
- E00093418
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 044A · E01018510
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 044 · E02003833
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
Property
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Buckley Avenue, Wistaston, Crewe, CW2 8GL | 6 November 2025 | £257,000 |
| 17, Buckley Avenue, Wistaston, Crewe, CW2 8GL | 5 September 2025 | £270,200 |
| 1, Buckley Avenue, Wistaston, Crewe, CW2 8GL | 23 February 2024 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 9
- 761 m
The Axis Academy
Free schools special
- 1.1 km
Wistaston Church Lane Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Wistaston Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 992
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 467
- Public order 127
- Criminal damage and arson 93
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Drugs 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 61
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- CW2 8 residents
- 13,044
34 female, 27 male
Age bands in CW2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
2,163 residents
1,258 residents
3,076 residents
3,589 residents
2,920 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CW2 8 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
8
within 5 km
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
2.2 km
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
2.2 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
GROSVENOR STREET, CREWE, CW1 3HB
ODS code N81068
2.4 km
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
3.3 km
NANTWICH HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81010
3.4 km
THE KILTEARN MEDICAL CTR.
KILTEARN MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81047
3.4 km
TUDOR SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81090
3.4 km
HUNGERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
SCHOOL CRESCENT, CREWE, CW1 5HA
ODS code N81044
3.9 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
- 0.3 miles
The Rising Sun
BCT · Wistaston
- 0.3 miles
The Rising Sun
BCT · Wistaston
- 0.4 miles
Foxfields
BCT · Wistaston
- 0.4 miles
Marshfield Bank
BCT · Woolstanwood
- 0.4 miles
Marshfield Bank
BCT · Woolstanwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 044A, 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
27,314 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 9 secondary schools. The Axis Academy is the nearest published school at 761 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
992 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 467 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.