Goostrey

Goostrey is covered by postcode districts CW4 and WA16. It is mostly in the Cheshire East council area: 53 of its 57 postcodes. The others are in Cheshire West and Chester.

Typical price £501,250 Homes sold in Goostrey, last 12 months. ▼ 13.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 14 of 57 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 1 of 57 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 1 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Goostrey, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Goostrey, by flood risk Of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Goostrey. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CW4 8FU: not on the flood risk listCW4 8GD: not on the flood risk listCW4 8GG: not on the flood risk listCW4 8HA: not on the flood risk listCW4 8HB: not on the flood risk listCW4 8HX: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JA: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JB: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JD: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JE: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JF: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JG: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JH: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JJ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JL: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JP: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JQ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JT: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JU: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JX: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JY: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LB: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LG: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LH: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LJ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LL: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LP: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LR: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LS: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LT: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LU: not on the flood risk listCW4 8LX: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NA: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NB: not on the flood risk listCW4 8ND: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NE: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NH: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NJ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NP: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NR: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NS: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NT: not on the flood risk listCW4 8NU: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PA: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PB: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PD: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PE: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PG: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PJ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PN: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PP: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PQ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PR: not on the flood risk listCW4 8PZ: not on the flood risk listCW4 8QZ: not on the flood risk listWA16 9LY: not on the flood risk listCW4 8JR: high flood risk Goostrey Map of every postcode in Goostrey, by flood risk Of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Goostrey. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Goostrey
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 56

Of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 56 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.2274, longitude -2.3480. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

CW4 8JR1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Goostrey?

Homes sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13.6% on the 12 months before. At 14 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 57 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Health Centre (Holmes Chapel), 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Goostrey, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Goostrey?

Homes in Goostrey sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 13.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£501,250 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£580,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 13.6% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £561,000 12 sales
  • Semi-detached £421,900 5 sales
  • Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole CW4 district, Goostrey's main postcode district: a typical £390,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Goostrey: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Goostrey?

None of the 57 postcodes now in use in Goostrey came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Goostrey were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW4 district, 13%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn GoostreyAcross the CW4 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 20 (0%) 0 of 145 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 36 (0%) 29 of 230 (13%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Goostrey?

Ofcom reports on 57 of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey. At 14 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit14 of 57
Postcodes where every home can get superfast54 of 57
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 57

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Goostrey at risk of flooding?

1 of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 57 postcodes High: 1

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Goostrey?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Goostrey. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Goostrey?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Goostrey is Goostrey Rail Station, 1.5 km away in a straight line.

  • Goostrey Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
  • Holmes Chapel Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
  • Chelford Rail Station Railway station 6.5 kmDrive

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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Goostrey?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Goostrey. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Goostrey safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 39 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Goostrey 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

  1. 4 September 2025
  2. 4 October 2025
  3. 3 November 2025
  4. 4 December 2025
  5. 1 January 2026
  6. 3 February 2026
  7. 3 March 2026
  8. None April 2026
  9. 4 May 2026
  10. 4 June 2026
  11. 4 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences21 reports
Public order7 reports
Criminal damage and arson5 reports
Drugs2 reports
Anti-social behaviour1 report
Burglary1 report
Other theft1 report
Other crime1 report

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 postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Goostrey?

Councils
Cheshire East (53) and Cheshire West and Chester (4)
Parliamentary constituencies
Congleton (53) and Tatton (4)
Police force area
Cheshire
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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Goostrey

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Goostrey is in Cheshire East; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Goostrey postcodes

57 postcodes in use in Goostrey, by district:

CW4 postcode district,56 postcodesWA16 postcode district,1 postcode

Those districts are in the CW postcode area and WA postcode area.

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Places near Goostrey

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Goostrey's £501,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Holmes Chapel3.1 km, £372,000Middlewich7.8 km, £235,500Knutsford8.6 km, £474,995Lostock Gralam8.9 km, £233,750Sandbach9.3 km, £266,250Rudheath9.4 km, £248,000Elworth9.5 km, £255,000Pickmere10.4 km, £315,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Goostrey

What is it like to live in Goostrey?
Homes sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13.6% on the 12 months before. At 14 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 57 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Health Centre (Holmes Chapel), 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Goostrey, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Goostrey?
Goostrey is covered by postcode districts CW4 and WA16, across 57 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Goostrey?
Homes in Goostrey sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 13.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Goostrey?
In Goostrey, primary schools at its postcodes include Goostrey Community Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, 3.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Goostrey have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Goostrey is Goostrey, 1.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Goostrey?
Ofcom reports on 57 of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey. At 14 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Goostrey at risk of flooding?
1 of the 57 postcodes in Goostrey has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Goostrey?
None of the 57 postcodes now in use in Goostrey came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Goostrey were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW4 district, 13%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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