Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lower Park School is the nearest published school at 211 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK12 1QN
Poynton West and Adlington · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stockport
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield
- Postcode district
- SK12
- Postcode sector
- SK12 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK12 1QN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1982
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK12
- Postcode sector
- SK12 1
- Latitude
- 53.352158
- Longitude
- -2.129082
- British National Grid easting
- 391,505
- British National Grid northing
- 383,925
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Poynton West and Adlington · E05008646
- Parish or community
- E04013200
- Westminster constituency
- Macclesfield · E14001347
- Output area
- E00094199
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 002D · E01018664
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 002 · E02003854
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 SK12
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Furness Close, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1QN | 27 June 2007 | £274,000 |
| 2, Furness Close, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1QN | 2 May 2002 | £199,000 |
| 1, Furness Close, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1QN | 3 November 2000 | £205,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 211 m
Lower Park School
Academy converter
- 964 m
Lostock Hall Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Vernon Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 447
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 171
- Shoplifting 76
- Public order 46
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Criminal damage and arson 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SK12 1 residents
- 14,150
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in SK12 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.4%
2,191 residents
1,178 residents
2,589 residents
3,828 residents
4,279 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SK12 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
9
within 5 km
BRAMHALL HEALTH CENTRE
66 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DY
ODS code P88015
2.4 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
31 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DN
ODS code P88041
2.5 km
BEECH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACT
BEECH HOUSE, BEECH AVENUE, HAZEL GROVE, STOCKPORT, SK7 4QR
ODS code P88012
3.1 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY
24-28 COMMERCIAL ROAD, HAZEL GROVE, STOCKPORT, SK7 4AA
ODS code P88606
3.4 km
BRAMHALL & SHAW HEATH MEDICAL GROUP
BRAMHALL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 235 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 3EP
ODS code P88016
3.5 km
HIGH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE VILLAGE GREEN, BUXTON ROAD, HIGH LANE, STOCKPORT, SK6 8DR
ODS code P88623
3.9 km
CHEADLE HULME MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
4.4 km
HULME HALL MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE WOOD, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88025
4.4 km
BRACONDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
141 BUXTON ROAD, HEAVILEY, STOCKPORT, SK2 6EQ
ODS code P88031
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Clifford Road
BCT · Poynton
- 0.2 miles
Clifford Road
BCT · Poynton
- 0.2 miles
Hazelbadge Road
BCT · Poynton
- 0.2 miles
Hilton Grove
BCT · Poynton
- 0.2 miles
Hazelbadge Road
BCT · Poynton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 002D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,563 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
447 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 171 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.