Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Adelaide Heath Academy is the nearest published school at 775 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 8RA
Knutsford · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Knutsford
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 8RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2014
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 8
- Latitude
- 53.301351
- Longitude
- -2.343501
- British National Grid easting
- 377,205
- British National Grid northing
- 378,320
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
- E00093911
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 010D · E01018607
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 010 · E02003863
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
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 775 m
Adelaide Heath Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.1 km
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Manor Park Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 324
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 161
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Public order 26
- Burglary 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA16 8 residents
- 7,985
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
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
KNUTSFORD MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MANCHESTER ROAD MED/CTR, 27-29 MANCHESTER ROAD, KNUTSFORD, WA16 0LY
ODS code N81049
2.3 km
DAVID LEWIS MEDICAL PRACTICE
MILL LANE, WARFORD, ALDERLEY EDGE, SK9 7UD
ODS code Y05750
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
St Johns Wood School
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.4 miles
St Johns Wood School
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.4 miles
Falcon Bearer PH
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.4 miles
Falcon Bearer PH
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 0.6 miles
Autumn Avenue
BCT · Shaw Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 010D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,571 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
324 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 161 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.