Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Oak Cottage is the nearest published school at 649 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA16 9NY
Shakerley · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shakerley
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 9NY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 9
- Latitude
- 53.237228
- Longitude
- -2.383515
- British National Grid easting
- 374,500
- British National Grid northing
- 371,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Shakerley · E05012236
- Parish or community
- E04011036
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00094508
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 017E · E01018722
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 017 · E02003878
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
- 649 m
Oak Cottage
Other independent special school
- 2.8 km
Byley Primary School and Nursery
Community school
- 2.9 km
Lower Peover CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Drugs 6
- Public order 3
- Burglary 2
- Other crime 2
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
THE HEALTH CENTRE (HOLMES CHAPEL)
LONDON ROAD, HOLMES CHAPEL, CREWE, CW4 7BB
ODS code N81077
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Princess Road
BCT · Allostock
- 0.0 miles
Princess Road
BCT · Allostock
- 0.6 miles
Pine View Farm
BCT · Cranage
- 0.9 miles
Townfield Lane
BCT · Boots Green
- 1.3 miles
Goostrey Lane
BCT · Cranage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 017E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,836 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.