Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Grange School is the nearest published school at 127 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW8 1QF
Hartford & Greenbank · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hartford & Greenbank
- 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 1QF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW8
- Postcode sector
- CW8 1
- Latitude
- 53.247390
- Longitude
- -2.543959
- British National Grid easting
- 363,800
- British National Grid northing
- 372,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Hartford & Greenbank · E05012219
- Parish or community
- E04012543
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Cheshire · E14001361
- Output area
- E00094354
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 023A · E01018691
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 023 · E02003883
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
- 34
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 127 m
The Grange School
Other independent school
- 378 m
Hartford Church of England High School
Voluntary aided school
- 607 m
Hartford Manor Primary School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 577
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 287
- Public order 78
- Anti social behaviour 60
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Drugs 28
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
FIRDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
FIRDALE ROAD, NORTHWICH, CW8 4AZ
ODS code N81025
839 m
DANEBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
LONDON ROAD, NORTHWICH, CW9 5HR
ODS code N81087
2.4 km
WATLING STREET SURGERY
2 WATLING STREET, NORTHWICH, CW9 5EX
ODS code N81055
2.5 km
OAKWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BROADWAY, BARNTON, NORTHWICH, CW8 4LF
ODS code N81067
2.7 km
THE WEAVERHAM SURGERY
NORTHWICH ROAD, WEAVERHAM, NORTHWICH, CW8 3EU
ODS code N81051
2.8 km
WITTON STREET SURGERY
162 WITTON STREET, NORTHWICH, CW9 5QU
ODS code N81061
3.1 km
MIDDLEWICH ROAD SURGERY
163-165 MIDDLEWICH ROAD, NORTHWICH, CW9 7DB
ODS code N81113
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St John the Baptist Church
BCT · Hartford
- 0.1 miles
St John the Baptist Church
BCT · Hartford
- 0.2 miles
High School
BCT · Hartford
- 0.2 miles
High School
BCT · Hartford
- 0.2 miles
High School
BCT · Hartford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 023A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,715 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
577 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 287 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.