Schools
69 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 10 secondary schools. Beamont Primary School is the nearest published school at 191 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA2 7QS
Fairfield and Howley · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fairfield and Howley
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA2
- Postcode sector
- WA2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA2 7QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA2
- Postcode sector
- WA2 7
- Latitude
- 53.398700
- Longitude
- -2.581804
- British National Grid easting
- 361,412
- British National Grid northing
- 389,253
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Fairfield and Howley · E05011030
- Parish or community
- E43000007
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00062934
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 011B · E01012482
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 011 · E02002600
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
- 69
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 10
- 191 m
Beamont Primary School
Academy converter
- 272 m
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 545 m
Oakwood Avenue Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,934
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,247
- Public order 572
- Drugs 340
- Shoplifting 323
- Anti social behaviour 322
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA2 7 residents
- 7,913
Age bands in WA2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
1,410 residents
826 residents
3,045 residents
1,850 residents
1,024 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
21
within 5 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
550 m
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
740 m
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
740 m
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
787 m
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
787 m
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
1.0 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
1.1 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
1.2 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
1.5 km
FOLLY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOLLY LANE, BEWSEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 0LU
ODS code N81056
1.7 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
1.8 km
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
1.9 km
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
2.0 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
2.1 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
2.4 km
FAIRFIELD SURGERY
WOOLSTON CLINIC, HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4LS
ODS code Y01108
2.4 km
HOLES LANE MEDICAL LTD.
THE SURGERY, 28 HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4NE
ODS code N81007
2.4 km
STOCKTON HEATH MED.CENTRE
THE FORGE, LONDON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6HJ
ODS code N81075
3.0 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
3.5 km
CHAPELFORD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
SANTA ROSA BOULEVARD, GREAT SANKEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 3AL
ODS code Y04925
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beamont Primary
BCT · Orford
- 0.1 miles
Battersby Lane
BCT · Orford
- 0.1 miles
Godfrey Street
BCT · Orford
- 0.1 miles
Godfrey Street
BCT · Orford
- 0.1 miles
Beaumont Schools
BCT · Orford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 011B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,792 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
4,934 published events cover 12 months, averaging 411.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,247 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.