Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Culcheth High School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA3 4JQ
Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 4JQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2010
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 4
- Latitude
- 53.454251
- Longitude
- -2.510836
- British National Grid easting
- 366,175
- British National Grid northing
- 395,397
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft · E05011029
- Parish or community
- E04000324
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00062923
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 001C · E01012476
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 001 · E02002590
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 WA3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 0 m
Culcheth High School
Community school
- 63 m
Culcheth Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 925 m
Newchurch Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 330
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 152
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Public order 37
- Shoplifting 30
- Burglary 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA3 4 residents
- 4,656
Age bands in WA3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
710 residents
456 residents
770 residents
1,468 residents
1,237 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
1.0 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
3.9 km
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
4.1 km
FOXLEIGH FAMILY SURGERY
HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92602
4.4 km
LEIGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y02322
4.4 km
LILFORD & PENNINGTON PARK SURGERY
THE BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y00050
4.4 km
OLD HENRY STREET MED CTR
OLD HENRY STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PG
ODS code P92007
4.4 km
PREMIER HEALTH TEAM
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92621
4.4 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
4.4 km
BROOKMILL MEDICAL CENTRE
COLLEGE STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2RB
ODS code P92023
4.7 km
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Holcroft Lane
BCT · Culcheth
- 0.1 miles
BP Garage
BCT · Culcheth
- 0.2 miles
High School
BCT · Culcheth
- 0.2 miles
Culcheth Hall Drive
BCT · Culcheth
- 0.2 miles
Holcroft Lane
BCT · Culcheth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 001C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,694 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
330 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 152 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.