Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bexton Primary School is the nearest published school at 250 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 9BS
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 9BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 9
- Latitude
- 53.294788
- Longitude
- -2.373529
- British National Grid easting
- 375,200
- British National Grid northing
- 377,600
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
- E00093892
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 010A · E01018603
- 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
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 250 m
Bexton Primary School
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- 860 m
Knutsford Academy
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- 961 m
Egerton Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 390
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 161
- Shoplifting 59
- Public order 48
- Other theft 28
- Criminal damage and arson 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA16 9 residents
- 3,948
Age bands in WA16 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
668 residents
322 residents
686 residents
1,395 residents
1,336 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
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Valley Way
BCT · Bexton
- 0.1 miles
Valley Way
BCT · Bexton
- 0.1 miles
Bexton Primary School
BCT · Bexton
- 0.2 miles
Highland Way
BCT · Bexton
- 0.2 miles
Highland Way
BCT · Bexton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 010A, 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
33,746 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
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
390 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.5 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.