Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Helens College is the nearest published school at 173 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA10 2QY
St Helens Town Centre · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston
- Postcode district
- WA10
- Postcode sector
- WA10 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA10 2QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA10
- Postcode sector
- WA10 2
- Latitude
- 53.452155
- Longitude
- -2.743840
- British National Grid easting
- 350,700
- British National Grid northing
- 395,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- St Helens Town Centre · E05014132
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston · E14001510
- Output area
- E00034622
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 012A · E01006832
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 012 · E02001417
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WA10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 8
- 173 m
St Helens College
Further education
- 332 m
St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 709 m
Launchpad Centre
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,917
- Shoplifting 734
- Public order 540
- Drugs 436
- Criminal damage and arson 379
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA10 2 residents
- 5,202
Age bands in WA10 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
785 residents
566 residents
1,483 residents
1,593 residents
989 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
22
within 5 km straight-line
CENTRAL SURGERY
LOWE HOUSE, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83027
513 m
NEWHOLME SURGERY
LOWE HSE HCRC, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83637
513 m
ORMSKIRK HOUSE SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83003
513 m
PARKFIELD SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83026
513 m
MILL STREET MEDICAL CTR.
2 MILL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2BD
ODS code N83012
557 m
LINGHOLME HEALTH CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83007
630 m
PHOENIX MEDICAL CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83006
630 m
HALL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
28-30 HALL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 1DW
ODS code N83017
757 m
BETHANY MEDICAL CENTRE
151 GRAFTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 4GW
ODS code N83054
988 m
ATLAS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATLAS STREET, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LN
ODS code N83023
1.3 km
THE SPINNEY MEDICAL CTR.
WHITTLE STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 3EB
ODS code N83035
1.4 km
ECCLESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
4 MILLFIELDS COURT, ECCLESTON, ST. HELENS, WA10 5RG
ODS code N83614
1.7 km
THE BOWERY MEDICAL CENTRE
ELEPHANT LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 5PR
ODS code N83050
2.0 km
MARSHALLS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. HELENS HOSPITAL, MARSHALLS CROSS ROAD, ST. HELENS, WA9 3DA
ODS code Y02510
2.2 km
WINDERMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDERMERE AVENUE, ST. HELENS, WA11 7AF
ODS code N83620
2.5 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
3.1 km
BERRYMEAD FAMILY MED.CTR.
140 BERRYS LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 3RP
ODS code N83008
3.1 km
FOUR ACRE HEALTH CENTRE
BURNAGE AVENUE, CLOCK FACE, ST. HELENS, WA9 4QB
ODS code N83021
3.9 km
RAINHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
529 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LP
ODS code N83010
4.2 km
LONGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
451 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LL
ODS code N83053
4.2 km
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Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Linkway West
BCT · Green Bank
- 0.1 miles
Eccleston Street
BCT · St Helens
- 0.1 miles
Asda
BCT · St Helens
- 0.2 miles
Asda
BCT · St Helens
- 0.2 miles
Rigby Street South
BCT · St Helens
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 012A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,466 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 430.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,917 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.