Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Adelaide Heath Academy is the nearest published school at 969 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 8XH
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 8XH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 8
- Latitude
- 53.314623
- Longitude
- -2.354189
- British National Grid easting
- 376,500
- British National Grid northing
- 379,800
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
- E00093915
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 009D · E01018611
- 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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 969 m
Adelaide Heath Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Manor Park Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 351
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 180
- Public order 37
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Other theft 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%
- 1,414 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- 662 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- 1,780 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- 2,185 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
KNUTSFORD MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MANCHESTER ROAD MED/CTR, 27-29 MANCHESTER ROAD, KNUTSFORD, WA16 0LY
ODS code N81049
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 435 m
Montmorency Road
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 447 m
Springwood Avenue
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 570 m
Council Depot
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 576 m
Council Depot
BCT · Shaw Heath
- 618 m
Oakfield Avenue
BCT · Shaw Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 009D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,186 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
351 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 180 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.