Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. Hope Academy is the nearest published school at 694 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA12 0HT
Newton-le-Willows East · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA12 0HT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 February 2005
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 0
- Latitude
- 53.466588
- Longitude
- -2.631884
- British National Grid easting
- 358,149
- British National Grid northing
- 396,834
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Newton-le-Willows East · E05014126
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens North · E14001509
- Output area
- E00034778
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 015A · E01006856
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 015 · E02001420
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 WA12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 694 m
Hope Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 754
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 385
- Public order 63
- Criminal damage and arson 63
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Vehicle crime 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA12 0 residents
- 4,835
Age bands in WA12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
866 residents
507 residents
1,188 residents
1,171 residents
801 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
1.1 km
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
1.3 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
1.6 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
1.8 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
2.4 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
2.4 km
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
2.8 km
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
2.8 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
2.8 km
ASHTON MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9SU
ODS code P92041
3.2 km
BRYN CROSS SURGERY
246 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, BRYN, WIGAN, WN4 0AR
ODS code P92034
4.0 km
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
4.0 km
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
4.0 km
BILLINGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIRST FLOOR GARSWOOD SURGERY, BILLINGE ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 0XD
ODS code N83019
4.7 km
GARSWOOD SURGERY
BILLINGE ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 0XD
ODS code Y00475
4.7 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Woodlands Business Park
BCT · Newton le Willows
- 0.3 miles
Johnson Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
- 0.3 miles
Johnson Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
- 0.3 miles
Wightman Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
- 0.3 miles
Mullins Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 015A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,774 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
754 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 385 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.