Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 6 secondary schools. Highfields Academy is the nearest published school at 761 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW5 6JW
Nantwich North and West · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 6JW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW5
- Postcode sector
- CW5 6
- Latitude
- 53.067101
- Longitude
- -2.504465
- British National Grid easting
- 366,294
- British National Grid northing
- 352,324
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
- E00093131
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 047D · E01018456
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 6
- 761 m
Highfields Academy
Academy converter
- 781 m
Pear Tree Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Nantwich Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,367
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 677
- Public order 149
- Anti social behaviour 108
- Shoplifting 86
- Other theft 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW5 6 residents
- 8,908
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
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
NANTWICH HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81010
949 m
THE KILTEARN MEDICAL CTR.
KILTEARN MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81047
949 m
TUDOR SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81090
949 m
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
3.4 km
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
4.9 km
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gingerbread Lane
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.1 miles
Gingerbread Lane
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.1 miles
Mount Drive
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.1 miles
Mount Drive
BCT · Nantwich
- 0.2 miles
Harvey Avenue
BCT · Nantwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 047D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,171 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,367 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 677 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.