Property market
The five-year median is £119,500 from 2 recorded sales in WA11 8GF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for St Helens is £186,435 in June 2026, up 11.1% year on year.
WA11 8GF
Rainford · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St Helens
- Ward
- Rainford
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA11
- Postcode sector
- WA11 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA11 8GF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA11
- Postcode sector
- WA11 8
- Latitude
- 53.504335
- Longitude
- -2.789864
- British National Grid easting
- 347,708
- British National Grid northing
- 401,138
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
- E00034891
- 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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Highcross, 21, Alfred Street, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8GF | 13 June 2025 | £154,000 |
| Highcross, 15, Alfred Street, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8GF | 5 October 2023 | £85,000 |
| Highcross, 22, Alfred Street, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8GF | 12 February 2021 | £75,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 153 m
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 403 m
Rainford CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 418 m
A.R.T.S. Education
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 234
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 131
- Public order 19
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 15
- Other theft 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- WA11 8 residents
- 6,239
14 female, 10 male
Age bands in WA11 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.4%
802 residents
487 residents
1,008 residents
1,712 residents
1,922 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA11 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
KENNETH MACRAE MED CENTRE
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
631 m
RAINFORD HEALTH CENTRE
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
661 m
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
4.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Alfred Street
BCT · Rainford
- 0.1 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Rainford
- 0.1 miles
Moss Brow
BCT · Rainford
- 0.1 miles
Ormskirk Road
BCT · Rainford
- 0.1 miles
Cross Pit Lane
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.
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
Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 153 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
234 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 131 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.