Handforth · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,127 residents
619 residents
1,731 residents
1,759 residents
1,487 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
THE GREEN, WILMSLOW ROAD, HANDFORTH, WILMSLOW, SK9 3HL
ODS code N81070
732 m
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88007
1.9 km
SMITHY GREEN, HULME HALL ROAD, CHEADLE HULME, CHEADLE WOOD, CHEADLE, SK8 6LU
ODS code P88025
1.9 km
FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88042
2.6 km
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88023
2.6 km
31 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DN
ODS code P88041
2.8 km
66 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 2DY
ODS code P88015
3.0 km
60-62 ALDERLEY ROAD, WILMSLOW, SK9 1PA
ODS code N81002
3.7 km
CHAPEL LANE, WILMSLOW, SK9 5HX
ODS code N81086
3.8 km
BRAMHALL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 235 BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH, BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, SK7 3EP
ODS code P88016
4.0 km
399 PORTWAY, WOODHOUSE PK, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 0EP
ODS code P84048
4.0 km
97 ADSHALL ROAD, CHEADLE, SK8 2JN
ODS code P88014
4.4 km
1-5 ASHFIELD CRESCENT, CHEADLE, SK8 1BH
ODS code P88020
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
63 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 6 secondary schools. St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
744 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 263 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.