Property market
The five-year median is £195,000 from 3 recorded sales in WA12 8AT. 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.
WA12 8AT
Newton-le-Willows West · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newton-Le-Willows
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA12 8AT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 8
- Latitude
- 53.449196
- Longitude
- -2.641819
- British National Grid easting
- 357,472
- British National Grid northing
- 394,905
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Newton-le-Willows West · E05014127
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens North · E14001509
- Output area
- E00177020
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 013D · E01033793
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 013 · E02001418
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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, Unit 1 Art Business Park, Junction Lane, Newton-Le-Willows, WA12 8AT | 1 September 2025 | £220,000 |
| Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, Unit 2 Art Business Park, Junction Lane, Newton-Le-Willows, WA12 8AT | 31 January 2024 | £150,000 |
| Sankey Valley Industrial Estate, Unit 5 Art Business Park, Junction Lane, Newton-Le-Willows, WA12 8AT | 1 December 2022 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 7
- 523 m
The District CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 690 m
St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 752 m
Wargrave CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,809
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 850
- Shoplifting 174
- Public order 168
- Criminal damage and arson 123
- Anti social behaviour 121
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA12 8 residents
- 9,053
Age bands in WA12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.6%
1,903 residents
945 residents
2,983 residents
2,385 residents
1,408 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
408 m
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
918 m
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
990 m
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
2.3 km
BERRYMEAD FAMILY MED.CTR.
140 BERRYS LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 3RP
ODS code N83008
3.8 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
4.3 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
4.3 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
4.5 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
4.6 km
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
4.6 km
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
4.6 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wellington Street
BCT · Earlestown
- 0.2 miles
Hoy Drive
BCT · Earlestown
- 0.2 miles
Earlestown Rail Station
RSE · Earlestown
- 0.2 miles
Railway Street
TXR · Earlestown
- 0.2 miles
Earlestown Bus Station
BCS · Earlestown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 013D, 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
25,098 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
44 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 7 secondary schools. The District CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 523 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,809 published events cover 12 months, averaging 150.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 850 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.