Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Peak School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK23 6AJ
Hayfield · High Peak · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK23 6AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK23
- Postcode sector
- SK23 6
- Latitude
- 53.362013
- Longitude
- -1.929921
- British National Grid easting
- 404,761
- British National Grid northing
- 385,016
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- High Peak · E07000037
- Electoral ward
- Hayfield · E05010635
- Parish or community
- E04002851
- Westminster constituency
- High Peak · E14001287
- Output area
- E00099851
- Lower layer super output area
- High Peak 006B · E01019734
- Middle layer super output area
- High Peak 006 · E02004098
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 SK23
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Higher Hills Cottage, Chinley, High Peak, SK23 6AJ | 1 July 2016 | £400,000 |
| Peep Of Day Farm, Chinley, High Peak, SK23 6AJ | 4 July 2008 | £760,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.5 km
Peak School
Academy special converter
- 2.5 km
Chinley Primary School
Foundation school
- 2.8 km
Hayfield Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- SK23 6 residents
- 2,449
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in SK23 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
430 residents
187 residents
544 residents
743 residents
521 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SK23 6 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THORNBROOK SURGERY
THORNBROOK ROAD, CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, HIGH PEAK, SK23 0RH
ODS code C81063
4.5 km
SETT VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
HYDE BANK ROAD, NEW MILLS, HIGH PEAK, SK22 4BP
ODS code C81003
4.6 km
ARDEN HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SETT CLOSE, NEW MILLS, HIGH PEAK, SK22 4AQ
ODS code C81634
4.8 km
GOYT VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL STREET, WHALEY BRIDGE, HIGH PEAK, SK23 7SR
ODS code C81080
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Old Coach House
BCT · Chinley
- 0.3 miles
Old Coach House
BCT · Chinley
- 0.7 miles
Green Acres Farm
BCT · Chinley
- 0.7 miles
Green Acres Farm
BCT · Chinley
- 1.0 miles
Highgate
BCT · Hayfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for High Peak 006B, 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
23,221 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.