Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Birchwood School is the nearest published school at 125 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA3 7PN
Birchwood · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Birchwood
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 7PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 March 2012
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 7
- Latitude
- 53.415987
- Longitude
- -2.525349
- British National Grid easting
- 365,180
- British National Grid northing
- 391,147
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
- E00173151
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 005A · E01012459
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 005 · E02002594
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
- 50
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 125 m
Birchwood School
Other independent special school
- 289 m
Birchwood Community High School
Academy converter
- 721 m
Birchwood CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 778
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 347
- Public order 86
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Vehicle crime 54
- Criminal damage and arson 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA3 7 residents
- 4,480
Age bands in WA3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
789 residents
441 residents
1,018 residents
1,430 residents
1,147 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
94 m
FAIRFIELD SURGERY
WOOLSTON CLINIC, HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4LS
ODS code Y01108
2.1 km
HOLES LANE MEDICAL LTD.
THE SURGERY, 28 HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4NE
ODS code N81007
2.2 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
2.3 km
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
3.7 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
3.7 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
4.0 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
4.1 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
4.4 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
4.4 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
4.6 km
BROOKFIELD SURGERY
WHITBARROW ROAD, LYMM, WARRINGTON, LYMM, WA13 9DB
ODS code N81014
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.1 miles
Ainscough Road
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.1 miles
Ainscough Road
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.1 miles
Foxwood School
BCT · Oakwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 005A, 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
6,673 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
778 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 347 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.