Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 6 secondary schools. Highfields Academy is the nearest published school at 400 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW5 6HJ
Nantwich North and West · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Nantwich
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Postcode district
- CW5
- Postcode sector
- CW5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW5 6HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW5
- Postcode sector
- CW5 6
- Latitude
- 53.076116
- Longitude
- -2.513184
- British National Grid easting
- 365,717
- British National Grid northing
- 353,331
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Nantwich North and West · E05008642
- Parish or community
- E04013198
- Westminster constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich · E14001185
- Output area
- E00093135
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 047C · E01018455
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 047 · E02003836
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 CW5
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, Ray Avenue, Nantwich, CW5 6HJ | 26 February 2021 | £280,000 |
| 20, Ray Avenue, Nantwich, CW5 6HJ | 22 February 2019 | £190,000 |
| 4, Ray Avenue, Nantwich, CW5 6HJ | 9 November 2018 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 6
- 400 m
Highfields Academy
Academy converter
- 889 m
Nantwich Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Reaseheath College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,293
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 631
- Public order 129
- Anti social behaviour 107
- Shoplifting 85
- Criminal damage and arson 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 70
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- CW5 6 residents
- 8,908
37 female, 33 male
Age bands in CW5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,360 residents
1,268 residents
2,026 residents
2,631 residents
2,480 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CW5 6 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
7
within 5 km
NANTWICH HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81010
955 m
THE KILTEARN MEDICAL CTR.
KILTEARN MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81047
955 m
TUDOR SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81090
955 m
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
4.1 km
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
4.7 km
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
4.7 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
GROSVENOR STREET, CREWE, CW1 3HB
ODS code N81068
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.1 miles
Brereton Drive
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery Corner
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery Corner
BCT · Nantwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 047C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,960 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
1,293 published events cover 12 months, averaging 107.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 631 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.