Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Peak School is the nearest published school at 439 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK23 6WU
Blackbrook · High Peak · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackbrook
- Local authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak
- Postcode district
- SK23
- Postcode sector
- SK23 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK23 6WU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2005
- Terminated
- 1 April 2006
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK23
- Postcode sector
- SK23 6
- Latitude
- 53.339934
- Longitude
- -1.939555
- British National Grid easting
- 404,122
- British National Grid northing
- 382,559
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- High Peak · E07000037
- Electoral ward
- Blackbrook · E05010624
- Parish or community
- E04002845
- Westminster constituency
- High Peak · E14001287
- Output area
- E00099734
- Lower layer super output area
- High Peak 008A · E01019712
- Middle layer super output area
- High Peak 008 · E02004100
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 439 m
Peak School
Academy special converter
- 874 m
Chinley Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.8 km
Buxworth Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 90
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Public order 13
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Burglary 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK23 6 residents
- 2,449
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THORNBROOK SURGERY
THORNBROOK ROAD, CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, HIGH PEAK, SK23 0RH
ODS code C81063
2.6 km
GOYT VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL STREET, WHALEY BRIDGE, HIGH PEAK, SK23 7SR
ODS code C81080
3.1 km
SETT VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
HYDE BANK ROAD, NEW MILLS, HIGH PEAK, SK22 4BP
ODS code C81003
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Chinley
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Chinley
- 0.2 miles
Chinley Rail Station
RSE · Chinley
- 0.2 miles
Chinley Rail Station
RLY · Chinley
- 0.2 miles
Lower Lane
BCT · Chinley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for High Peak 008A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,998 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
90 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.