Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 8 secondary schools. Padgate Academy is the nearest published school at 364 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA2 0JL
Poplars and Hulme · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Poplars and Hulme
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA2
- Postcode sector
- WA2 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA2 0JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2005
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA2
- Postcode sector
- WA2 0
- Latitude
- 53.411245
- Longitude
- -2.565758
- British National Grid easting
- 362,490
- British National Grid northing
- 390,640
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Poplars and Hulme · E05011040
- Parish or community
- E04013419
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00063269
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 008E · E01012545
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 008 · E02002597
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 WA2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 8
- 364 m
Padgate Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 369 m
St Bridget's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 393 m
Brook Acre Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,270
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,185
- Public order 238
- Criminal damage and arson 181
- Anti social behaviour 174
- Other theft 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA2 0 residents
- 16,712
Age bands in WA2 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
3,058 residents
1,940 residents
4,227 residents
4,383 residents
3,151 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
20
within 5 km straight-line
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
443 m
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
825 m
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
1.7 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
1.7 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
1.7 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
1.7 km
FAIRFIELD SURGERY
WOOLSTON CLINIC, HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4LS
ODS code Y01108
1.8 km
HOLES LANE MEDICAL LTD.
THE SURGERY, 28 HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4NE
ODS code N81007
1.9 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
1.9 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
2.7 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
2.8 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
2.8 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
2.9 km
FOLLY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOLLY LANE, BEWSEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 0LU
ODS code N81056
3.1 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
3.2 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
3.4 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
3.4 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
3.8 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
4.4 km
STOCKTON HEATH MED.CENTRE
THE FORGE, LONDON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6HJ
ODS code N81075
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Waddington Court
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Close
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Close
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.1 miles
Orange Grove
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.2 miles
Brantfield Court
BCT · Warrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 008E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,639 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,270 published events cover 12 months, averaging 189.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.