Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Wilmslow Academy is the nearest published school at 409 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK9 2QJ
Handforth · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Handforth
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- SK9
- Postcode sector
- SK9 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK9 2QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK9
- Postcode sector
- SK9 2
- Latitude
- 53.340138
- Longitude
- -2.207218
- British National Grid easting
- 386,300
- British National Grid northing
- 382,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Handforth · E05008629
- Parish or community
- E04012173
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00093828
- 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 SK9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 409 m
The Wilmslow Academy
Academy converter
- 763 m
Aurora Summerfields School
Other independent special school
- 771 m
St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 933
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 359
- Shoplifting 100
- Public order 97
- Other theft 84
- Anti social behaviour 67
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK9 2 residents
- 9,505
Age bands in SK9 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,797 residents
942 residents
2,515 residents
2,760 residents
1,571 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
HANDFORTH HEALTH CENTRE
THE GREEN, WILMSLOW ROAD, HANDFORTH, WILMSLOW, SK9 3HL
ODS code N81070
968 m
KENMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
60-62 ALDERLEY ROAD, WILMSLOW, SK9 1PA
ODS code N81002
2.7 km
WILMSLOW HEALTH CENTRE
CHAPEL LANE, WILMSLOW, SK9 5HX
ODS code N81086
2.8 km
CHEADLE HULME MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
3.1 km
HULME HALL MEDICAL GROUP
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE WOOD, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88025
3.1 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
31 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DN
ODS code P88041
3.5 km
FINNEY LANE SURGERY
FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88042
3.6 km
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE 2
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88023
3.6 km
BRAMHALL HEALTH CENTRE
66 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DY
ODS code P88015
3.7 km
TREGENNA GROUP PRACTICE
399 PORTWAY, WOODHOUSE PK, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 0EP
ODS code P84048
4.7 km
ALDERLEY EDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
TALBOT ROAD, ALDERLEY EDGE, SK9 7EP
ODS code N81033
4.9 km
BRAMHALL & SHAW HEATH MEDICAL GROUP
BRAMHALL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 235 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 3EP
ODS code P88016
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hallwood Road
BCT · Handforth
- 0.1 miles
Peckmill Close
BCT · Wilmslow
- 0.2 miles
Peckmill Close
BCT · Wilmslow
- 0.2 miles
Hallwood Road
BCT · Handforth
- 0.2 miles
Oaklands Close
BCT · Wilmslow
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
933 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 359 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.