Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 9 secondary schools. Shavington Academy is the nearest published school at 620 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW5 7HU
Willaston and Rope · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Nantwich
- Ward
- Willaston and Rope
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Postcode district
- CW5
- Postcode sector
- CW5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW5 7HU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW5
- Postcode sector
- CW5 7
- Latitude
- 53.066751
- Longitude
- -2.467003
- British National Grid easting
- 368,804
- British National Grid northing
- 352,268
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Willaston and Rope · E05008654
- Parish or community
- E04013201
- Westminster constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich · E14001185
- Output area
- E00093380
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 046D · E01018505
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 046 · E02003835
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rope Hall, Eastern Road, Willaston, Nantwich, CW5 7HU | 5 March 2021 | £1,235,460 |
| Rope Hall Cottages, 1, Eastern Road, Willaston, Nantwich, CW5 7HU | 3 March 2017 | £320,000 |
| The Coach House, Eastern Road, Willaston, Nantwich, CW5 7HU | 16 December 2014 | £655,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 9
- 620 m
Shavington Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
The Berkeley Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Willaston Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 409
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 196
- Public order 41
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Shoplifting 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- CW5 7 residents
- 10,855
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in CW5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
1,882 residents
1,060 residents
2,199 residents
3,182 residents
2,186 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CW5 7 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
ROPE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ROPE LANE, SHAVINGTON, CREWE, CW2 5DA
ODS code N81084
875 m
NANTWICH HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81010
3.5 km
THE KILTEARN MEDICAL CTR.
KILTEARN MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81047
3.5 km
TUDOR SURGERY
CHURCH VIEW PCC, BEAM STREET, NANTWICH, CW5 5NX
ODS code N81090
3.5 km
EARNSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81053
3.7 km
MILLCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
EAGLE BRIDGE H & W CENTRE, DUNWOODY WAY, CREWE, CW1 3AW
ODS code N81016
3.7 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
GROSVENOR STREET, CREWE, CW1 3HB
ODS code N81068
4.1 km
HUNGERFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
SCHOOL CRESCENT, CREWE, CW1 5HA
ODS code N81044
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Ashlea Drive
BCT · Willaston
- 0.4 miles
Ashlea Drive
BCT · Willaston
- 0.4 miles
Shavington Academy
BCT · Rope
- 0.4 miles
Medical Centre
BCT · Rope
- 0.4 miles
Medical Centre
BCT · Rope
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 046D, 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
31,998 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 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
Recorded crime
409 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 196 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.