Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Rivington Primary School is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA10 6LF
Windle · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Windle
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA10
- Postcode sector
- WA10 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA10 6LF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA10
- Postcode sector
- WA10 6
- Latitude
- 53.462245
- Longitude
- -2.751638
- British National Grid easting
- 350,194
- British National Grid northing
- 396,428
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Windle · E05014137
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens North · E14001509
- Output area
- E00035049
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 007C · E01006916
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 007 · E02001412
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
- 50
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 1 m
Rivington Primary School
Community school
- 397 m
Cowley International College
Community school
- 656 m
Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,856
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,617
- Public order 394
- Drugs 333
- Shoplifting 308
- Criminal damage and arson 305
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA10 6 residents
- 8,031
Age bands in WA10 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,459 residents
874 residents
2,040 residents
2,242 residents
1,598 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
19
within 5 km straight-line
LINGHOLME HEALTH CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83007
675 m
PHOENIX MEDICAL CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83006
675 m
CENTRAL SURGERY
LOWE HOUSE, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83027
860 m
NEWHOLME SURGERY
LOWE HSE HCRC, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83637
860 m
ORMSKIRK HOUSE SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83003
860 m
PARKFIELD SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83026
860 m
MILL STREET MEDICAL CTR.
2 MILL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2BD
ODS code N83012
1.0 km
BETHANY MEDICAL CENTRE
151 GRAFTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 4GW
ODS code N83054
1.1 km
ECCLESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
4 MILLFIELDS COURT, ECCLESTON, ST. HELENS, WA10 5RG
ODS code N83614
1.6 km
HALL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
28-30 HALL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 1DW
ODS code N83017
1.7 km
WINDERMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDERMERE AVENUE, ST. HELENS, WA11 7AF
ODS code N83620
1.8 km
ATLAS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATLAS STREET, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LN
ODS code N83023
2.0 km
THE SPINNEY MEDICAL CTR.
WHITTLE STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 3EB
ODS code N83035
2.2 km
THE BOWERY MEDICAL CENTRE
ELEPHANT LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 5PR
ODS code N83050
2.9 km
MARSHALLS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. HELENS HOSPITAL, MARSHALLS CROSS ROAD, ST. HELENS, WA9 3DA
ODS code Y02510
3.3 km
BERRYMEAD FAMILY MED.CTR.
140 BERRYS LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 3RP
ODS code N83008
4.1 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
4.3 km
KENNETH MACRAE MED CENTRE
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
4.7 km
RAINFORD HEALTH CENTRE
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gamble Avenue
BCT · Windlehurst
- 0.2 miles
Gamble Avenue
BCT · Windlehurst
- 0.2 miles
Tennis Street
BCT · Cowley Hill
- 0.2 miles
Windlehurst Avenue
BCT · Windlehurst
- 0.2 miles
Windlehurst Avenue
BCT · Windlehurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 007C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,870 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,856 published events cover 12 months, averaging 321.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,617 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.