Property market
The five-year median is £2,720,428 from 2 recorded sales in WA3 6PL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Warrington is £259,398 in June 2026, up 6.5% year on year.
WA3 6PL
Birchwood · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warrington
- Ward
- Birchwood
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 6PL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 6
- Latitude
- 53.428292
- Longitude
- -2.515146
- British National Grid easting
- 365,868
- British National Grid northing
- 392,511
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Birchwood · E05011026
- Parish or community
- E04000320
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00062875
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 004B · E01012462
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 004 · E02002593
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Gorse Covert Day Centre, 22, Adlington Court, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6PL | 25 August 2022 | £3,100,000 |
| Gorse Covert Day Centre, 22, Adlington Court, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6PL | 14 January 2022 | £2,340,857 |
| 11, Adlington Court, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6PL | 4 November 2020 | £200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 785 m
Gorse Covert Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Birchwood CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.5 km
Locking Stumps Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 764
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 399
- Public order 85
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Other theft 44
- Vehicle crime 39
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+
- 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
6
within 5 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
1.6 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
2.7 km
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
3.5 km
FAIRFIELD SURGERY
WOOLSTON CLINIC, HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4LS
ODS code Y01108
3.6 km
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
3.6 km
HOLES LANE MEDICAL LTD.
THE SURGERY, 28 HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4NE
ODS code N81007
3.7 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Risley Road
BCT · Risley
- 0.2 miles
Leacroft Road
BCT · Risley
- 0.2 miles
Leacroft Road
BCT · Risley
- 0.3 miles
Birchwood Forest Park
BCT · Risley Moss
- 0.4 miles
Birchwood Forest Park
BCT · Risley Moss
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 004B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,624 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
32 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Gorse Covert Primary School is the nearest published school at 785 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
764 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 399 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.