Stockport
Stockport is covered by postcode districts SK1, SK2, SK3, SK4, SK5, SK8 and 2 more. It is in the Stockport council area, England.
Every postcode in Stockport, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 97
- In use before 2020: 2,615
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 2,712 postcodes in Stockport that ONS places, 97 are new since 2020 and 2,615 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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 53.4072, longitude -2.1606. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 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 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 36 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SK1 1WZ, is the newest of them.
- 7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SK4 3GP, is the newest of them.
- 6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SK2 5GN, is the newest of them.
- 5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SK1 3GP, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Stockport?
Homes sold for a typical £274,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,270 of the 2,594 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 361 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 107 of its 2,712 postcodes. It has 35 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Stockport, 250 metres 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 Stockport?
Homes in Stockport sold for a typical £274,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,365 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £270,000 from 1,724 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £430,000 125 sales
- Semi-detached £310,000 581 sales
- Terraced £235,000 488 sales
- Flat or maisonette £169,000 171 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SK4 district, Stockport's main postcode district: a typical £340,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Stockport: 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 Stockport?
97 of the 2,712 postcodes now in use in Stockport came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 40 of the 1,724 homes sold in Stockport were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK4 district, 1%.
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 Stockport | Across the SK4 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 2 of 1,365 (Under 1%) | 0 of 422 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 40 of 1,724 (2%) | 7 of 548 (1%) |
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 Stockport?
Ofcom reports on 2,594 of the 2,712 postcodes in Stockport. At 2,270 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 Stockport at risk of flooding?
107 of the 2,712 postcodes in Stockport 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 361 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 Stockport?
The open schools at the postcodes in Stockport (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
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy350 m 101 pupils, 175 places
- St Matthew's Church of England Primary School450 m 201 pupils, 250 places
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School500 m 157 pupils, 210 places
- St Thomas' Church of England Primary School Stockport550 m 149 pupils, 230 places
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy800 m 90 pupils, 164 places
- Vernon Park Primary School950 m 312 pupils, 355 places
- Cale Green Primary School1.1 km 329 pupils, 340 places
- Lark Hill Primary School1.2 km 173 pupils, 240 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 Stockport?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Stockport is Stockport Rail Station, 250 m away in a straight line.
- Stockport Rail Station Railway station 250 mWalk
- Davenport Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
- Heaton Chapel Rail Station Railway station 2.4 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 Stockport?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Stockport, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Heaton Norris Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 983 1600 1.1 kmWalk
- Stockport Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 426 5333 1.2 kmCycle
- Manor Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 426 9166 1.6 kmCycle
- Vernon Park Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0161 480 2724 1.7 kmCycle
- Bracondale Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0161 426 9050 1.7 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Stockport safe? Crime recorded around it
Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Stockport. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Stockport?
- Council
- Stockport
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Stockport (2,007), Hazel Grove (538) and Cheadle (167)
- Police force area
- Greater Manchester
- 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 Stockport
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Stockport about council tax Council tax, on stockport.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Stockport
- 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
Stockport postcodes
2,712 postcodes in use in Stockport, by district:
Those districts are in the SK postcode area and M postcode area.
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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 Stockport
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Stockport's £274,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Stockport
- What is the postcode for Stockport?
- Postcode districts SK1, SK2, SK3, SK4, SK5, SK8 and 2 more, with 2,712 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Stockport in?
- Stockport. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Stockport?
- A typical £274,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 1,365 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Stockport?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, St Matthew's Church of England Primary School and Our Lady's Catholic Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Progress Schools - Stockport, Hulme Hall Grammar School and Stockport Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Stockport have a railway station?
- Yes: Stockport station, 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Stockport?
- Ofcom reports on 2,594 of the 2,712 postcodes in Stockport. At 2,270 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Stockport at risk of flooding?
- 107 of the 2,712 postcodes in Stockport 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 361 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 Stockport?
- 97 of the 2,712 postcodes now in use in Stockport came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 40 of the 1,724 homes sold in Stockport were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK4 district, 1%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- 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 HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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