Northwich
Northwich is covered by postcode districts CW8 and CW9. It is in the Cheshire West and Chester council area, England.
Every postcode in Northwich, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 11
- At medium risk at worst: 24
- At low risk at worst: 59
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 508
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 602 postcodes in Northwich that ONS places, 11 have a home or business at high risk, 24 are at medium risk at worst, 59 are at low risk at worst and 508 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 53.2595, longitude -2.5146. 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.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 24 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. CW9 5EY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Northwich?
Homes sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 482 of the 544 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 166 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 94 of its 602 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Northwich, 1.2 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 Northwich?
Homes in Northwich sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 311 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £190,000 from 379 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £331,250 44 sales
- Semi-detached £236,500 90 sales
- Terraced £175,000 127 sales
- Flat or maisonette £104,500 50 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CW9 district, Northwich's main postcode district: a typical £273,750.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Northwich: 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 Northwich?
39 of the 602 postcodes now in use in Northwich came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 23 of the 379 homes sold in Northwich were newly built (6%), 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
| Period | In Northwich | Across the CW9 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 2 of 311 (Under 1%) | 17 of 468 (4%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 23 of 379 (6%) | 88 of 664 (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 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Northwich?
Ofcom reports on 544 of the 602 postcodes in Northwich. At 482 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 Northwich at risk of flooding?
94 of the 602 postcodes in Northwich 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 166 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 Northwich?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Northwich. 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.
Primary
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 Northwich?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Northwich is Northwich Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.
- Northwich Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmWalk
- Greenbank Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
- Hartford Rail Station Railway station 3.3 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 Northwich?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Northwich, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Watling Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01606 42452 100 mWalk
- Danebridge Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01606 544544 200 mWalk
- Witton Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01606 544850 750 mWalk
- Firdale Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 01606 544300 1.6 kmCycle
- Middlewich Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2023 · Phone 01606 544700 1.7 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Northwich safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,952 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Northwich 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
- 160 September 2025
- 173 October 2025
- 166 November 2025
- 158 December 2025
- 145 January 2026
- 107 February 2026
- 158 March 2026
- 153 April 2026
- 163 May 2026
- 180 June 2026
- 169 July 2026
- 220 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 40, other crime 39, possession of weapons 14, robbery 12, bicycle theft 10, theft from the person 5.
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 Northwich?
- Council
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Mid Cheshire (595) and Tatton (7)
- 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 Northwich
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- 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 Northwich
- 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
Northwich postcodes
602 postcodes in use in Northwich, by district:
Those districts are all in the CW postcode area.
Check a Northwich postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Northwich
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Northwich's £205,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Northwich
- What is the postcode for Northwich?
- Postcode districts CW8 and CW9, with 602 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Northwich in?
- Cheshire West and Chester. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Northwich?
- A typical £205,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 311 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Northwich?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Witton Church Walk CofE Aided Nursery and Primary School, Charles Darwin Community Primary School and Victoria Road Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is St Nicholas Catholic High School, 1.5 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Northwich have a railway station?
- Yes: Northwich station, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Northwich?
- Ofcom reports on 544 of the 602 postcodes in Northwich. At 482 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Northwich at risk of flooding?
- 94 of the 602 postcodes in Northwich 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 166 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 Northwich?
- 39 of the 602 postcodes now in use in Northwich came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 23 of the 379 homes sold in Northwich were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW9 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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