Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port is covered by postcode districts CH1, CH2, CH34, CH65 and CH66. It is mostly in the Cheshire West and Chester council area: 1,790 of its 1,794 postcodes. The others are in Wirral.
Every postcode in Ellesmere Port, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 22
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 17
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,752
Of the 1,794 postcodes in Ellesmere Port that ONS places, 22 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 17 are at low risk at worst and 1,752 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.2763, longitude -2.9170. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
22 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Ellesmere Port?
Homes sold for a typical £209,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,552 of the 1,725 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 422 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 42 of its 1,794 postcodes. It has 20 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Overpool, 1.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Ellesmere Port?
Homes in Ellesmere Port sold for a typical £209,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 678 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £200,000 from 861 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £330,000 173 sales
- Semi-detached £210,000 312 sales
- Terraced £159,500 148 sales
- Flat or maisonette £105,000 45 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CH66 district, Ellesmere Port's main postcode district: a typical £234,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ellesmere Port: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Ellesmere Port?
75 of the 1,794 postcodes now in use in Ellesmere Port came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 11 of the 861 homes sold in Ellesmere Port were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH66 district, 3%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Ellesmere Port | Across the CH66 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 678 (0%) | 1 of 422 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 11 of 861 (1%) | 14 of 535 (3%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Ellesmere Port?
Ofcom reports on 1,725 of the 1,794 postcodes in Ellesmere Port. At 1,552 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Ellesmere Port at risk of flooding?
42 of the 1,794 postcodes in Ellesmere Port have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 422 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Ellesmere Port?
The open schools at the postcodes in Ellesmere Port (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Brookside Primary School550 m 184 pupils, 210 places
- The Acorns Primary and Nursery School550 m 356 pupils, 394 places
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School650 m 290 pupils, 420 places
- William Stockton Community Primary School900 m 367 pupils, 360 places
- St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy900 m
- Whitby Heath Primary School1.0 km 406 pupils, 420 places
- Ellesmere Port Christ Church CofE Primary School1.4 km 197 pupils, 210 places
- Meadow Primary School1.4 km 419 pupils, 420 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Ellesmere Port?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ellesmere Port is Overpool Rail Station, 1.0 km away in a straight line.
- Overpool Rail Station Railway station 1.0 kmWalk
- Ellesmere Port Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Little Sutton Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Ellesmere Port?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Ellesmere Port, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Old Hall Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 355 1191 850 mWalk
- Whitby Health Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 0151 355 6144 1.1 kmWalk
- York Road Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2015, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 355 2112 1.2 kmCycle
- Great Sutton Medical Centre Phone 0151 339 3126 1.3 kmCycle
- Hope Farm Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 0151 357 3777 1.3 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Ellesmere Port safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,589 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ellesmere Port over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 291 September 2025
- 321 October 2025
- 283 November 2025
- 257 December 2025
- 270 January 2026
- 274 February 2026
- 287 March 2026
- 286 April 2026
- 299 May 2026
- 350 June 2026
- 378 July 2026
- 293 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 79, burglary 70, possession of weapons 36, bicycle theft 31, robbery 28, theft from the person 3.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Ellesmere Port?
- Councils
- Cheshire West and Chester (1,790) and Wirral (4)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (1,719), Runcorn and Helsby (52) and Chester North and Neston (23)
- Police force areas
- Cheshire (1,790) and Merseyside (4)
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Ellesmere Port
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Ellesmere Port is in Cheshire West and Chester; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Cheshire West and Chester about council tax Council tax, on cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Ellesmere Port
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Ellesmere Port postcodes
1,794 postcodes in use in Ellesmere Port, by district:
Those districts are all in the CH postcode area.
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Places near Ellesmere Port
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ellesmere Port's £209,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Ellesmere Port
- What is the postcode for Ellesmere Port?
- Postcode districts CH1, CH2, CH34, CH65 and CH66, with 1,794 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Ellesmere Port?
- A typical £209,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 678 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Ellesmere Port?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Brookside Primary School, The Acorns Primary and Nursery School and Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy, Ellesmere Port Church of England College and The Whitby High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Ellesmere Port have a railway station?
- Yes: Overpool station, 1.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Ellesmere Port?
- Ofcom reports on 1,725 of the 1,794 postcodes in Ellesmere Port. At 1,552 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Ellesmere Port at risk of flooding?
- 42 of the 1,794 postcodes in Ellesmere Port have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 422 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Ellesmere Port?
- 75 of the 1,794 postcodes now in use in Ellesmere Port came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 11 of the 861 homes sold in Ellesmere Port were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH66 district, 3%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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