Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Oak View Academy is the nearest published school at 812 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW7 2UA
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW7 2UA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW7
- Postcode sector
- CW7 2
- Latitude
- 53.188791
- Longitude
- -2.559276
- British National Grid easting
- 362,727
- British National Grid northing
- 365,889
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
- E00094577
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 037B · E01018737
- 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
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 812 m
The Oak View Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 874 m
Hebden Green Community School
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
Oaklands School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 932
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 517
- Public order 91
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Other theft 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW7 2 residents
- 11,761
Age bands in CW7 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
2,277 residents
1,283 residents
3,086 residents
3,269 residents
1,941 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.
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+
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
LAUNCESTON CLOSE SURGERY
9-10 LAUNCESTON CLOSE, WINSFORD, CW7 1LY
ODS code N81074
1.3 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE WINSFORD
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81040
2.0 km
SWANLOW MEDICAL CENTRE
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81024
2.0 km
THE WEAVER VALE SURGERY
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81127
2.0 km
WILLOW WOOD SURGERY
CROOK LANE, WINSFORD, CW7 3GY
ODS code N81123
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Police Headquarters
BCT · Over
- 0.2 miles
Chesterfield Close
BCT · Over
- 0.2 miles
Chesterfield Close
BCT · Over
- 0.3 miles
St Johns Drive
BCT · Over
- 0.3 miles
St Johns Drive
BCT · Over
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 037B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,197 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
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
- 0
- 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
932 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 517 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.