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.
Every postcode in Goostrey, by flood risk
- 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
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
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Goostrey?
Homes sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026. 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.
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 Goostrey?
Homes in Goostrey sold for a typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £580,000 from 36 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.
- 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.
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
| Period | In Goostrey | Across 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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 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).
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 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.
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 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
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.
- The Health Centre (Holmes Chapel) Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01477 533100 3.1 kmCycle
- Chelford Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2025 · Phone 01625 861316 6.6 kmDrive
- Waters Edge Medical Centre Phone 01606 544401 7.5 kmDrive
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
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
- 4 September 2025
- 4 October 2025
- 3 November 2025
- 4 December 2025
- 1 January 2026
- 3 February 2026
- 3 March 2026
- None April 2026
- 4 May 2026
- 4 June 2026
- 4 July 2026
- 5 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
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 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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
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.
- Tell Cheshire East about council tax Council tax, on cheshireeast.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The nearest GP practices
- 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
Goostrey postcodes
57 postcodes in use in Goostrey, by district:
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.
Quick answers about Goostrey
- What is the postcode for Goostrey?
- Postcode districts CW4 and WA16, with 57 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Goostrey?
- A typical £501,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, from 20 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are 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. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Goostrey have a railway station?
- The nearest is Goostrey station, 1.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- 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.
- 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. River and sea risk for the land, not 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 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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