Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Birchwood School is the nearest published school at 675 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA3 6EP
Rixton and Woolston · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rixton and Woolston
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 6EP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 6
- Latitude
- 53.409432
- Longitude
- -2.521748
- British National Grid easting
- 365,414
- British National Grid northing
- 390,416
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Rixton and Woolston · E05011043
- Parish or community
- E04000336
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00063310
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 014A · E01012551
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 014 · E02002603
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
- 51
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 675 m
Birchwood School
Other independent special school
- 966 m
Birchwood Community High School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Birchwood CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 382
- Public order 99
- Anti social behaviour 66
- Vehicle crime 63
- Criminal damage and arson 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA3 6 residents
- 10,619
Age bands in WA3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.1%
1,466 residents
1,070 residents
2,938 residents
2,971 residents
1,865 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
745 m
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
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
2.3 km
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
2.5 km
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
3.6 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
3.6 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
4.0 km
BROOKFIELD SURGERY
WHITBARROW ROAD, LYMM, WARRINGTON, LYMM, WA13 9DB
ODS code N81014
4.0 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
4.1 km
THE LAKESIDE SURGERY
LAKESIDE ROAD, LYMM, WA13 0QE
ODS code N81108
4.4 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
4.5 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
4.5 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
4.7 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Rail Station
RLY · Birchwood
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Railway Station
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Station
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.4 miles
Ainscough Road
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.4 miles
Ainscough Road
BCT · Birchwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 014A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,008 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 382 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.