Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Valley School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK7 1RA
Handforth · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Handforth
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- SK7
- Postcode sector
- SK7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK7 1RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK7
- Postcode sector
- SK7 1
- Latitude
- 53.345651
- Longitude
- -2.188784
- British National Grid easting
- 387,529
- British National Grid northing
- 383,210
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Handforth · E05008629
- Parish or community
- E04013185
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00093830
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 004C · E01018593
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 004 · E02003856
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 SK7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.3 km
Valley School
Community special school
- 1.3 km
St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Moss Hey Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 259
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 75
- Violence and sexual offences 58
- Other theft 30
- Public order 25
- Criminal damage and arson 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK7 1 residents
- 7,395
Age bands in SK7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
1,300 residents
614 residents
1,638 residents
2,058 residents
1,916 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
HANDFORTH HEALTH CENTRE
THE GREEN, WILMSLOW ROAD, HANDFORTH, WILMSLOW, SK9 3HL
ODS code N81070
1.7 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
31 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DN
ODS code P88041
2.2 km
CHEADLE HULME MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
2.3 km
HULME HALL MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE WOOD, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88025
2.3 km
BRAMHALL HEALTH CENTRE
66 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DY
ODS code P88015
2.4 km
BRAMHALL & SHAW HEATH MEDICAL GROUP
BRAMHALL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 235 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 3EP
ODS code P88016
3.8 km
FINNEY LANE SURGERY
FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88042
3.8 km
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE 2
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88023
3.8 km
KENMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
60-62 ALDERLEY ROAD, WILMSLOW, SK9 1PA
ODS code N81002
4.0 km
WILMSLOW HEALTH CENTRE
CHAPEL LANE, WILMSLOW, SK9 5HX
ODS code N81086
4.1 km
ADSHALL ROAD MEDICAL PRAC
97 ADSHALL ROAD, CHEADLE, SK8 2JN
ODS code P88014
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Shopping Centre
BCT · Handforth Dean
- 0.8 miles
Copperfield Road
BCT · Gillbent
- 0.8 miles
Copperfield Road
BCT · Gillbent
- 0.9 miles
Grove Park
BCT · Gillbent
- 0.9 miles
Grove Park
BCT · Gillbent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 004C, 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
29,614 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
259 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 75 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.