Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. David Lewis School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 7SU
Chelford · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chelford
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 7SU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 7
- Latitude
- 53.293160
- Longitude
- -2.315006
- British National Grid easting
- 379,100
- British National Grid northing
- 377,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Chelford · E05008617
- Parish or community
- E04010969
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00094151
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007G · E01018654
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007 · E02003859
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 WA16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.1 km
David Lewis School
Non-maintained special school
- 2.1 km
The David Lewis Centre
Special post 16 institution
- 2.9 km
Adelaide Heath Academy
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA16 7 residents
- 3,267
Age bands in WA16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.9%
541 residents
282 residents
747 residents
1,071 residents
1,071 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DAVID LEWIS MEDICAL PRACTICE
MILL LANE, WARFORD, ALDERLEY EDGE, SK9 7UD
ODS code Y05750
2.0 km
CHELFORD SURGERY
ELMSTEAD ROAD, CHELFORD, MACCLESFIELD, SK11 9BS
ODS code N81069
3.2 km
KNUTSFORD MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MANCHESTER ROAD MED/CTR, 27-29 MANCHESTER ROAD, KNUTSFORD, WA16 0LY
ODS code N81049
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Noonsun Farm
BCT · Great Warford
- 0.9 miles
Noonsun Farm
BCT · Great Warford
- 0.9 miles
Beech Close
BCT · Ollerton
- 1.0 miles
Seven Sisters Lane
BCT · Ollerton
- 1.0 miles
Seven Sisters Lane
BCT · Ollerton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 007G, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,873 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.