Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Jefferson House is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW8 1AA
Winsford Swanlow · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Winsford Swanlow
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire
- Postcode district
- CW8
- Postcode sector
- CW8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW8 1AA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW8
- Postcode sector
- CW8 1
- Latitude
- 53.171108
- Longitude
- -2.516066
- British National Grid easting
- 365,600
- British National Grid northing
- 363,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Winsford Swanlow · E05012251
- Parish or community
- E04011084
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Cheshire · E14001361
- Output area
- E00094515
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 045D · E01018725
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 045 · E02003891
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 CW8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Jefferson House
Other independent school
- 1.5 km
Darnhall Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
St. Chad's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 223
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 119
- Public order 27
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Other crime 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW8 1 residents
- 9,153
Age bands in CW8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,530 residents
922 residents
2,260 residents
2,673 residents
1,922 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
2.2 km
HIGH STREET PRACTICE WINSFORD
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81040
2.4 km
SWANLOW MEDICAL CENTRE
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81024
2.4 km
THE WEAVER VALE SURGERY
DENE DRIVE, WINSFORD, CW7 1AT
ODS code N81127
2.4 km
WILLOW WOOD SURGERY
CROOK LANE, WINSFORD, CW7 3GY
ODS code N81123
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Swanlow Park Cemetery
BCT · Glebe Green
- 0.3 miles
Swanlow Park Cemetery
BCT · Glebe Green
- 0.5 miles
Raven Inn PH
BCT · Darnhall
- 0.5 miles
Raven Inn PH
BCT · Darnhall
- 0.5 miles
Moors Lane
BCT · Glebe Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 045D, 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
18,047 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
223 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 119 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.