Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 5 secondary schools. Acorns School is the nearest published school at 714 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK6 7RB
Marple South & High Lane · Stockport · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stockport
- Local authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove
- Postcode district
- SK6
- Postcode sector
- SK6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK6 7RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK6
- Postcode sector
- SK6 7
- Latitude
- 53.389892
- Longitude
- -2.076584
- British National Grid easting
- 395,004
- British National Grid northing
- 388,118
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Stockport · E08000007
- Electoral ward
- Marple South & High Lane · E05015030
- Parish or community
- E43000161
- Westminster constituency
- Hazel Grove · E14001277
- Output area
- E00029945
- Lower layer super output area
- Stockport 029C · E01005911
- Middle layer super output area
- Stockport 029 · E02001215
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 SK6
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Field Close, Marple, Stockport, SK6 7RB | 30 August 2018 | £795 |
| 4, Field Close, Marple, Stockport, SK6 7RB | 5 April 2017 | £225,000 |
| 12, Field Close, Marple, Stockport, SK6 7RB | 29 November 2013 | £152,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 5
- 714 m
Acorns School
Other independent special school
- 849 m
Rose Hill Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
All Saints Church of England Primary School Marple
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- SK6 7 residents
- 7,522
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in SK6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
1,221 residents
609 residents
1,669 residents
1,892 residents
1,963 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SK6 7 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
13
within 5 km
MARPLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
50 STOCKPORT ROAD, MARPLE, STOCKPORT, SK6 6AB
ODS code P88021
957 m
MARPLE COTTAGE SURGERY
50 CHURCH STREET, MARPLE, STOCKPORT, SK6 6BW
ODS code P88006
1.1 km
MARPLE BRIDGE SURGERY
TOWN STREET, MARPLE BRIDGE, STOCKPORT, SK6 5AA
ODS code P88002
2.0 km
HIGH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE VILLAGE GREEN, BUXTON ROAD, HIGH LANE, STOCKPORT, SK6 8DR
ODS code P88623
2.8 km
CHADSFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHICHESTER ROAD, ROMILEY, STOCKPORT, SK6 4QR
ODS code P88017
2.9 km
BEECH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACT
BEECH HOUSE, BEECH AVENUE, HAZEL GROVE, STOCKPORT, SK7 4QR
ODS code P88012
3.0 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY
24-28 COMMERCIAL ROAD, HAZEL GROVE, STOCKPORT, SK7 4AA
ODS code P88606
3.2 km
MANOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
OFFERTON HEALTH CENTRE, 10 OFFERTON LANE, OFFERTON, STOCKPORT, SK2 5AR
ODS code P88003
4.3 km
ALVANLEY FAMILY PRACTICE
WOODLEY HEALTH CENTRE, HYDE ROAD, WOODLEY, STOCKPORT, SK6 1ND
ODS code P88019
4.3 km
ARCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOODLEY HEALTH CENTRE, HYDE ROAD, WOODLEY, STOCKPORT, SK6 1ND
ODS code P88625
4.3 km
WOODLEY VILLAGE SURGERY
WOODLEY HEALTH CENTRE, HYDE ROAD, WOODLEY, STOCKPORT, SK6 1ND
ODS code P88009
4.3 km
BREDBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 AUBURN AVENUE, BREDBURY, STOCKPORT, SK6 2AH
ODS code P88044
4.4 km
BRACONDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
141 BUXTON ROAD, HEAVILEY, STOCKPORT, SK2 6EQ
ODS code P88031
4.7 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
Marple Sixth Form College
BCT · Marple
- 0.3 miles
Cotefield Close
BCT · Marple
- 0.3 miles
Cotefield Close
BCT · Marple
- 0.4 miles
Rose Hill Marple Rail Station
RSE · Rose Hill
- 0.4 miles
Rose Hill Marple Rail Station
RLY · Rose Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stockport 029C, 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
29,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.