CW7
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Winsford, Town Fields and Over, in Cheshire West and Chester.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an CW7 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In CW7, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How CW7 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CW7 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CW7 at a rate of 86.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 69.4 per 1,000 people across CW.
In August 2026 alone, 282 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CW7.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,584), other crime (635) and anti-social behaviour (373).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CW7 was 76.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in CW7, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CW7 has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in CW7
MPs for CW7
- Andrew CooperLabourMP for Mid Cheshire98% of CW7’s postcodes
- Aphra BrandrethConservativeMP for Chester South and Eddisbury2.4% of CW7’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in CW75
Postcode sectors in CW75
Council1
Towns in CW71
Postcode districts next to CW75
Nearest rail stations1
More in the CW postcode area2
CW7 in brief
CW7 is a postcode district covering Winsford, Town Fields and Over, in Cheshire West and Chester.
About 36,422 people lived in CW7 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 469 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CW7 was £200,000 in 2025.
CW7 had 34,600 usual residents at the census.
In CW7, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In CW7, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.