Property market
The five-year median is £900,000 from 3 recorded sales in WA16 9QX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cheshire East is £303,387 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
WA16 9QX
Chelford · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 9QX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 9
- Latitude
- 53.261007
- Longitude
- -2.374044
- British National Grid easting
- 375,146
- British National Grid northing
- 373,842
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Chelford · E05008617
- Parish or community
- E04013199
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00094155
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007G · E01018654
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007 · E02003859
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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hillcroft, Free Green Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, WA16 9QX | 17 January 2025 | £900,000 |
| Brookdale, Free Green Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, WA16 9QX | 27 September 2024 | £800,000 |
| Free Green Farm, (howarth), Free Green Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, WA16 9QX | 26 November 2021 | £1,400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 920 m
Lower Peover CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Oak Cottage
Other independent special school
- 3.6 km
Peover Superior Endowed Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 4
- Public order 3
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- WA16 9 residents
- 3,948
28 female, 23 male
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
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA16 9 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+
- 92.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 92.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 92.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 92.9%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Millbank Lodge
BCT · Over Peover
- 0.6 miles
Broom Lane
BCT · Smithy Green
- 0.7 miles
Broom Lane
BCT · Smithy Green
- 0.7 miles
Free Green Lane
BCT · Lower Peover
- 0.7 miles
Heesom Green Farm
BCT · Toft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 007G, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,873 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 0
- 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
Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lower Peover CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 920 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.