Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Adelaide Heath Academy is the nearest published school at 290 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 8AT
Knutsford · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 8AT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 8
- Latitude
- 53.303497
- Longitude
- -2.353377
- British National Grid easting
- 376,548
- British National Grid northing
- 378,562
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Knutsford · E05008632
- Parish or community
- E04013190
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00093928
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 009B · E01018609
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 009 · E02003861
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, North Downs, Knutsford, WA16 8AT | 9 September 2016 | £475,000 |
| 27, North Downs, Knutsford, WA16 8AT | 29 February 2012 | £235,000 |
| 35, North Downs, Knutsford, WA16 8AT | 27 June 2008 | £308,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 290 m
Adelaide Heath Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 434 m
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 462 m
Manor Park Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 536
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 229
- Shoplifting 61
- Public order 59
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Anti social behaviour 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WA16 8 residents
- 7,985
10 female, 10 male
Age bands in WA16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
1,414 residents
662 residents
1,780 residents
2,185 residents
1,736 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA16 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
KNUTSFORD MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MANCHESTER ROAD MED/CTR, 27-29 MANCHESTER ROAD, KNUTSFORD, WA16 0LY
ODS code N81049
1.6 km
DAVID LEWIS MEDICAL PRACTICE
MILL LANE, WARFORD, ALDERLEY EDGE, SK9 7UD
ODS code Y05750
4.8 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
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Wood School
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Wood School
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.2 miles
Autumn Avenue
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.2 miles
Autumn Avenue
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.2 miles
St Vincent's School
BCT · Knutsford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 009B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,909 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
536 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 229 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.