Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 7 secondary schools. Willow House School is the nearest published school at 675 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK8 6GN
Handforth · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Handforth
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- SK8
- Postcode sector
- SK8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK8 6GN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK8
- Postcode sector
- SK8 6
- Latitude
- 53.354721
- Longitude
- -2.204975
- British National Grid easting
- 386,454
- British National Grid northing
- 384,222
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 SK8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 7
- 675 m
Willow House School
Other independent special school
- 727 m
St James' Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
- 874 m
Royal College Manchester (Seashell Trust)
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 617
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 196
- Shoplifting 97
- Public order 77
- Other theft 56
- Anti social behaviour 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK8 6 residents
- 8,844
Age bands in SK8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
1,632 residents
776 residents
1,997 residents
2,282 residents
1,643 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 95.5%
- 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
18
within 5 km
HANDFORTH HEALTH CENTRE
THE GREEN, WILMSLOW ROAD, HANDFORTH, WILMSLOW, SK9 3HL
ODS code N81070
1.0 km
CHEADLE HULME MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
1.6 km
HULME HALL MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE WOOD, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88025
1.6 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
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
31 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DN
ODS code P88041
2.7 km
BRAMHALL HEALTH CENTRE
66 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DY
ODS code P88015
2.9 km
BRAMHALL & SHAW HEATH MEDICAL GROUP
BRAMHALL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 235 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 3EP
ODS code P88016
3.7 km
TREGENNA GROUP PRACTICE
399 PORTWAY, WOODHOUSE PK, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 0EP
ODS code P84048
3.9 km
ADSHALL ROAD MEDICAL PRAC
97 ADSHALL ROAD, CHEADLE, SK8 2JN
ODS code P88014
4.0 km
KENMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
60-62 ALDERLEY ROAD, WILMSLOW, SK9 1PA
ODS code N81002
4.1 km
WILMSLOW HEALTH CENTRE
CHAPEL LANE, WILMSLOW, SK9 5HX
ODS code N81086
4.1 km
CHEADLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 ASHFIELD CRESCENT, CHEADLE, SK8 1BH
ODS code P88020
4.4 km
GATLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD HALL ROAD, GATLEY, CHEADLE, SK8 4DG
ODS code P88024
4.8 km
CORNISHWAY GROUP PRACTICE
FORUM HEALTH, SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84043
4.9 km
PEEL HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FORUM HEALTH SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84020
4.9 km
BENCHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
BENCHILL ONE STOP MEDICAL CENTRE, 171 BROWNLEY ROAD, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84029
4.9 km
RK MEDICAL PRACTICE
171 BROWNLEY ROAD, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84014
4.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Commercial Avenue
BCT · Stanley Green
- 0.0 miles
Commercial Avenue
BCT · Handforth Dean
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Avenue
BCT · Handforth Dean
- 0.1 miles
BASF
BCT · Stanley Green
- 0.2 miles
Duke Avenue
BCT · Stanley Green
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
- 15
- 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
617 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 196 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.