Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. A.R.T.S. Education is the nearest published school at 90 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA11 7SU
Rainford · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rainford
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA11
- Postcode sector
- WA11 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA11 7SU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA11
- Postcode sector
- WA11 7
- Latitude
- 53.506649
- Longitude
- -2.796059
- British National Grid easting
- 347,300
- British National Grid northing
- 401,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Rainford · E05014130
- Parish or community
- E04013528
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens North · E14001509
- Output area
- E00034910
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 001F · E01006887
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 001 · E02001406
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 WA11
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 90 m
A.R.T.S. Education
Other independent special school
- 368 m
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 714 m
Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 125
- Public order 19
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Other theft 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA11 7 residents
- 6,843
Age bands in WA11 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- 1,157 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- 633 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- 1,606 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- 1,939 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
- 1,527 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
KENNETH MACRAE MED CENTRE
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
1.1 km
RAINFORD HEALTH CENTRE
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
1.1 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
4.3 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
4.9 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 102 m
Eden Avenue
BCT · Rainford
- 113 m
Randle Brook Court
BCT · Rainford
- 254 m
Old Lane
BCT · Rainford
- 268 m
Dairy Farm Road
BCT · Rainford Junction
- 284 m
Ormskirk Road
BCT · Rainford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 001F, 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
13,344 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 125 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.