Lostock Gralam

Lostock Gralam is covered by postcode district CW9. It is in the Cheshire West and Chester council area, England.

Every postcode in Lostock Gralam, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Lostock Gralam, by flood risk Of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam that ONS places, 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lostock Gralam. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A556A559 CW9 7FE: not on the flood risk listCW9 7FG: not on the flood risk listCW9 7FJ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7FP: not on the flood risk listCW9 7FQ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PA: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PB: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PD: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PE: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PF: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PG: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PH: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PN: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PP: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PQ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PR: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PS: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PT: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PU: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PW: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PX: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PY: not on the flood risk listCW9 7PZ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QA: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QB: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QD: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QE: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QF: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QG: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QH: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QJ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QL: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QN: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QP: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QQ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QR: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QS: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QT: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QU: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QW: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QX: not on the flood risk listCW9 7QY: not on the flood risk listCW9 7UA: not on the flood risk listCW9 7XA: not on the flood risk listCW9 7XG: not on the flood risk listCW9 7XR: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YB: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YD: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YE: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YF: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YG: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YH: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YJ: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YL: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YN: not on the flood risk listCW9 7YU: not on the flood risk list Lostock Gralam Map of every postcode in Lostock Gralam, by flood risk Of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam that ONS places, 56 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lostock Gralam. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A556 Lostock Gralam
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • 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 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam that ONS places, 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 53.2713, longitude -2.4608. 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

What is it like to live in Lostock Gralam?

Homes sold for a typical £233,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9.2% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 55 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 56 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Middlewich Road Surgery, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lostock Gralam, 500 metres 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 Lostock Gralam?

Homes in Lostock Gralam sold for a typical £233,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 9.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£233,750 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£257,500
12 months to August 2026
£233,750

▼ down 9.2% on the 12 months before

Detached£362,500 10 sales
Semi-detached£200,000 15 sales
Terraced£185,250 5 sales
Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole CW9 district, Lostock Gralam's main postcode district: a typical £278,748.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lostock Gralam: 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 Lostock Gralam?

1 of the 56 postcodes now in use in Lostock Gralam came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 42 homes sold in Lostock Gralam were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW9 district, 13%.

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

PeriodIn Lostock GralamAcross the CW9 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 32 (0%) 16 of 466 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 42 (0%) 87 of 655 (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 Lostock Gralam?

Ofcom reports on 55 of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit53 of 55
Postcodes where every home can get superfast54 of 55

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.

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

Is Lostock Gralam at risk of flooding?

None of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Lostock Gralam?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Lostock Gralam. 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.

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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 Lostock Gralam?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lostock Gralam is Lostock Gralam Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.

  • Lostock Gralam Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
  • Northwich Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
  • Plumley Rail Station Railway station 2.8 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Lostock Gralam?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Lostock Gralam. 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 Lostock Gralam safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 268 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lostock Gralam 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. 9 September 2025
  2. 17 October 2025
  3. 27 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 27 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 22 March 2026
  8. 21 April 2026
  9. 38 May 2026
  10. 32 June 2026
  11. 29 July 2026
  12. 27 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences126 reports
Anti-social behaviour30 reports
Shoplifting26 reports
Other theft20 reports
Public order19 reports
Criminal damage and arson10 reports
Burglary9 reports
Drugs9 reports

Also: other crime 9, vehicle crime 5, bicycle theft 2, possession of weapons 2, robbery 1.

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 Lostock Gralam?

Council
Cheshire West and Chester
Parliamentary constituency
Tatton
Police force area
Cheshire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Esther McVey (Conservative)

All 56 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Lostock Gralam postcodes

56 postcodes in use in Lostock Gralam, by district:

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Places near Lostock Gralam

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lostock Gralam's £233,750. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Questions about Lostock Gralam

What is it like to live in Lostock Gralam?
Homes sold for a typical £233,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 9.2% on the 12 months before. At 53 of the 55 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 56 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Middlewich Road Surgery, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lostock Gralam, 500 metres 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 Lostock Gralam?
Lostock Gralam is covered by postcode district CW9, across 56 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Lostock Gralam in?
Lostock Gralam is in the Cheshire West and Chester council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Lostock Gralam?
Lostock Gralam is in the Tatton parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Esther McVey (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Lostock Gralam?
Homes in Lostock Gralam sold for a typical £233,750 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 9.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Lostock Gralam?
In Lostock Gralam, primary schools at its postcodes include Lostock Gralam CofE Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Rudheath Senior Academy, 2.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Lostock Gralam have a railway station?
Yes: Lostock Gralam is 500 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Lostock Gralam, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Lostock Gralam?
Ofcom reports on 55 of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Lostock Gralam at risk of flooding?
None of the 56 postcodes in Lostock Gralam is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Lostock Gralam?
1 of the 56 postcodes now in use in Lostock Gralam came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 42 homes sold in Lostock Gralam were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW9 district, 13%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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