Schools
110 open schools are in scope, including 69 primary and 14 secondary schools. Gatley Primary School is the nearest published school at 172 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK8 4FA
Cheadle West & Gatley · Stockport · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK8 4FA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK8
- Postcode sector
- SK8 4
- Latitude
- 53.390315
- Longitude
- -2.234678
- British National Grid easting
- 384,490
- British National Grid northing
- 388,188
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Stockport · E08000007
- Electoral ward
- Cheadle West & Gatley · E05015021
- Parish or community
- E43000161
- Westminster constituency
- Cheadle · E14001158
- Output area
- E00029250
- Lower layer super output area
- Stockport 025D · E01005775
- Middle layer super output area
- Stockport 025 · E02001211
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 SK8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 110
- Primary
- 69
- Secondary
- 14
- 172 m
Gatley Primary School
Academy converter
- 650 m
The Kingsway School
Academy converter
- 911 m
Lum Head Primary School
Community 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
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK8 4 residents
- 9,028
Age bands in SK8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,661 residents
890 residents
2,080 residents
2,323 residents
1,895 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
29
within 5 km straight-line
GATLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD HALL ROAD, GATLEY, CHEADLE, SK8 4DG
ODS code P88024
391 m
BENCHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
BENCHILL ONE STOP MEDICAL CENTRE, 171 BROWNLEY ROAD, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84029
1.4 km
RK MEDICAL PRACTICE
171 BROWNLEY ROAD, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84014
1.4 km
CHEADLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 ASHFIELD CRESCENT, CHEADLE, SK8 1BH
ODS code P88020
1.5 km
FINNEY LANE SURGERY
FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88042
2.3 km
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE 2
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88023
2.3 km
CORNISHWAY GROUP PRACTICE
FORUM HEALTH, SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84043
2.3 km
PEEL HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FORUM HEALTH SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84020
2.3 km
BARLOW MEDICAL CENTRE
828 WILMSLOW ROAD, DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, M20 2RN
ODS code P84034
2.6 km
TREGENNA GROUP PRACTICE
399 PORTWAY, WOODHOUSE PK, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 0EP
ODS code P84048
2.6 km
NORTHENDEN GROUP PRACTICE
489 PALATINE ROAD, NORTHENDEN, MANCHESTER, M22 4DH
ODS code P84012
2.7 km
CARITAS GENERAL PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
262 STOCKPORT ROAD, CHEADLE HEATH, STOCKPORT, SK3 0RQ
ODS code P88013
2.9 km
ADSHALL ROAD MEDICAL PRAC
97 ADSHALL ROAD, CHEADLE, SK8 2JN
ODS code P88014
2.9 km
HEATON MERSEY MED.PRACT.
460 DIDSBURY ROAD, HEATON MERSEY, STOCKPORT, SK4 3BT
ODS code P88008
3.2 km
BOWLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
52 BOWLAND ROAD, BAGULEY, MANCHESTER, M23 1JX
ODS code P84024
3.4 km
THE MAPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCOUT DRIVE, NEWALL GREEN, MANCHESTER, M23 2SY
ODS code P84021
3.5 km
KINGSWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
720 BURNAGE LANE, MANCHESTER, M19 1UG
ODS code P84022
3.6 km
THE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
434 ALTRINCHAM ROAD, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M23 9AB
ODS code P84045
3.7 km
NORTHERN MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
216 WYTHENSHAWE ROAD, NORTHERN MOOR, MANCHESTER, M23 0PH
ODS code P84651
3.9 km
CHEADLE HULME MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 29 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Church Road
BCT · Gatley
- 0.1 miles
Oakwood Avenue
BCT · Gatley
- 0.2 miles
Gatley Rail Station
BCT · Gatley
- 0.2 miles
Gatley War Memorial
BCT · Gatley
- 0.2 miles
Stonepail Road
BCT · Gatley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stockport 025D, 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
30,267 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
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.