Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Rainford High School is the nearest published school at 533 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA11 8LG
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 8LG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA11
- Postcode sector
- WA11 8
- Latitude
- 53.505156
- Longitude
- -2.777049
- British National Grid easting
- 348,559
- British National Grid northing
- 401,220
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
- E00034896
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 001D · E01006885
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hedera, Ivy Lane, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8LG | 2 August 1996 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 533 m
Rainford High School
Academy converter
- 611 m
Rainford CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 618 m
Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 186
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 100
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Public order 13
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA11 8 residents
- 6,239
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
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km
RAINFORD HEALTH CENTRE
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
584 m
KENNETH MACRAE MED CENTRE
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
922 m
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
3.9 km
WINDERMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDERMERE AVENUE, ST. HELENS, WA11 7AF
ODS code N83620
4.6 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.6 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
- 0.3 miles
Witton Way
BCT · Muncaster
- 0.3 miles
Muncaster Drive
BCT · Muncaster
- 0.3 miles
Witton Way
BCT · Muncaster
- 0.3 miles
Cross Pit Lane
BCT · Muncaster
- 0.3 miles
Rainford High School Internal Grounds
BCT · Muncaster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 001D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,418 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
186 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.