Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hermitage Primary School is the nearest published school at 839 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW4 8DF
Dane Valley · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crewe
- Ward
- Dane Valley
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton
- Postcode district
- CW4
- Postcode sector
- CW4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW4 8DF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 2002
- Terminated
- 1 August 2005
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW4
- Postcode sector
- CW4 8
- Latitude
- 53.196907
- Longitude
- -2.347709
- British National Grid easting
- 376,868
- British National Grid northing
- 366,702
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Dane Valley · E05008626
- Parish or community
- E04010954
- Westminster constituency
- Congleton · E14001178
- Output area
- E00184559
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 023D · E01018416
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 023 · E02003812
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 CW4
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rhodia Pharma Solutions Ltd, Station Road, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, CW4 8DF | 6 July 2016 | £1,996,200 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 839 m
Hermitage Primary School
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- 1.1 km
Holmes Chapel Primary School
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- 1.4 km
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 236
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 125
- Public order 30
- Other theft 18
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW4 8 residents
- 4,819
Age bands in CW4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
769 residents
431 residents
860 residents
1,341 residents
1,190 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
THE HEALTH CENTRE (HOLMES CHAPEL)
LONDON ROAD, HOLMES CHAPEL, CREWE, CW4 7BB
ODS code N81077
658 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brooklands
BCT · Holmes Chapel
- 0.1 miles
Thatch Close
BCT · Holmes Chapel
- 0.2 miles
Holmes Chapel Rail Station
RSE · Holmes Chapel
- 0.2 miles
Holmes Chapel Rail Station
RLY · Holmes Chapel
- 0.3 miles
Aldi
BCT · Holmes Chapel
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 023D, 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
30,022 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
236 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 125 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.