Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Whitley Village School is the nearest published school at 259 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA4 4FU
Marbury · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Marbury
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Postcode district
- WA4
- Postcode sector
- WA4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA4 4FU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2018
- Terminated
- 1 September 2019
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA4
- Postcode sector
- WA4 4
- Latitude
- 53.316451
- Longitude
- -2.574784
- British National Grid easting
- 361,805
- British National Grid northing
- 380,099
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Marbury · E05012225
- Parish or community
- E04011188
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00094506
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 003C · E01018721
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 003 · E02003875
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 WA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 259 m
Whitley Village School
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- 2.5 km
Antrobus St Mark's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.7 km
Stretton St Matthew's CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Drugs 2
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA4 4 residents
- 3,696
Age bands in WA4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
451 residents
364 residents
929 residents
1,176 residents
809 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
STRETTON MEDICAL CENTRE
5 HATTON LANE, STRETTON, WARRINGTON, WA4 4NE
ODS code N81623
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dark Lane
BCT · Higher Whitley
- 0.1 miles
Bentley's Farm
BCT · Higher Whitley
- 0.5 miles
Wash Cottage
BCT · Higher Whitley
- 0.5 miles
Grimsditch Lane
BCT · Norcott Brook
- 0.5 miles
Grimsditch Lane
BCT · Norcott Brook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 003C, 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
20,972 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.