Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Petty Pool College is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CW8 2DJ
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CW8 2DJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CW
- Postcode district
- CW8
- Postcode sector
- CW8 2
- Latitude
- 53.234597
- Longitude
- -2.574884
- British National Grid easting
- 361,725
- British National Grid northing
- 370,993
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
- E00094530
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 019B · E01018727
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 019 · E02003880
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
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.0 km
Petty Pool College
Special post 16 institution
- 1.3 km
Sandiway Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Cuddington Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 80
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 46
- Public order 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Drugs 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CW8 2 residents
- 10,268
Age bands in CW8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
1,622 residents
821 residents
2,001 residents
3,073 residents
2,751 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE WEAVERHAM SURGERY
NORTHWICH ROAD, WEAVERHAM, NORTHWICH, CW8 3EU
ODS code N81051
3.1 km
FIRDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
FIRDALE ROAD, NORTHWICH, CW8 4AZ
ODS code N81025
3.3 km
OAKWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BROADWAY, BARNTON, NORTHWICH, CW8 4LF
ODS code N81067
4.6 km
DANEBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
LONDON ROAD, NORTHWICH, CW9 5HR
ODS code N81087
4.9 km
WATLING STREET SURGERY
2 WATLING STREET, NORTHWICH, CW9 5EX
ODS code N81055
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Sandiway
- 0.4 miles
Littledales Lane
BCT · Hartford
- 0.4 miles
Speedwell Cottages
BCT · Hartford
- 0.4 miles
Speedwell Cottages
BCT · Hartford
- 0.4 miles
Norley Road
BCT · Sandiway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 019B, 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
29,294 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
80 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 46 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.