CH2
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Chester, Hoole and Newton, 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 CH2 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 3% of people in CH2 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How CH2 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is CH2 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in CH2 at a rate of 71.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across the CH postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 227 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in CH2.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,287), other crime (580) and anti-social behaviour (202).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in CH2 was 63.7 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 CH2, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so CH2 has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in CH2
MPs for CH2
- Samantha DixonLabourMP for Chester North and Neston77% of CH2’s postcodes
- Sarah PochinReform UKMP for Runcorn and Helsby23% of CH2’s postcodes
- Justin MaddersLabourMP for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough0.2% of CH2’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 CH24
Postcode sectors in CH24
Council1
Towns in CH22
Postcode districts next to CH25
Nearest rail stations4
More in the CH postcode area2
CH2 in brief
CH2 is a postcode district covering Chester, Hoole and Newton, in Cheshire West and Chester.
About 37,248 people lived in CH2 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £280,000 in 2025 across 553 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 71.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in CH2 was £280,000 in 2025.
CH2 had 35,918 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in CH2 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In CH2, 90.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.