Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Oaklands School is the nearest published school at 239 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW7 1QB
Winsford Over & Verdin · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire
- Postcode district
- CW7
- Postcode sector
- CW7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW7 1QB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1982
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW7
- Postcode sector
- CW7 1
- Latitude
- 53.186254
- Longitude
- -2.546179
- British National Grid easting
- 363,600
- British National Grid northing
- 365,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Winsford Over & Verdin · E05012250
- Parish or community
- E04011194
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Cheshire · E14001361
- Output area
- E00188812
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 037A · E01018736
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 037 · E02003887
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 CW7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 239 m
Oaklands School
Community special school
- 402 m
Over Hall Community School
Academy converter
- 453 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,743
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 928
- Public order 186
- Anti social behaviour 184
- Criminal damage and arson 119
- Other theft 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW7 1 residents
- 10,203
Age bands in CW7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
2,001 residents
1,120 residents
2,646 residents
2,653 residents
1,916 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
LAUNCESTON CLOSE SURGERY
9-10 LAUNCESTON CLOSE, WINSFORD, CW7 1LY
ODS code N81074
428 m
HIGH STREET PRACTICE WINSFORD
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81040
1.2 km
SWANLOW MEDICAL CENTRE
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81024
1.2 km
THE WEAVER VALE SURGERY
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81127
1.2 km
WILLOW WOOD SURGERY
CROOK LANE, WINSFORD, CW7 3GY
ODS code N81123
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Oakmere Road
BCT · Over
- 0.0 miles
Oakmere Road
BCT · Over
- 0.1 miles
Arkwright Close
BCT · Over
- 0.1 miles
Arkwright Close
BCT · Over
- 0.2 miles
Grampian Way
BCT · Over
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 037A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,723 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,743 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 928 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.