Property market
The five-year median is £331,500 from 12 recorded sales in WA3 7QA. 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 7QA
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 7QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 7
- Latitude
- 53.419599
- Longitude
- -2.539733
- British National Grid easting
- 364,227
- British National Grid northing
- 391,556
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
- E00062856
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 004C · E01012463
- 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
55 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, Carrington Close, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7QA | 26 June 2026 | £420,000 |
| 3, Carrington Close, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7QA | 26 August 2025 | £348,000 |
| 64, Carrington Close, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7QA | 6 August 2025 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 430 m
Locking Stumps Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 750 m
Birchwood Community High School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Birchwood School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 916
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 427
- Public order 106
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Other theft 53
- Criminal damage and arson 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 114
- Postcode households
- 67
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- WA3 7 residents
- 4,480
59 female, 55 male
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
This postcode contained 2.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA3 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
15
within 5 km
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
15 BENSON ROAD, BIRCHWOOD, WARRINGTON, WA3 7PJ
ODS code N81114
991 m
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
1.6 km
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
1.8 km
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
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
3.3 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
3.3 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
3.6 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
3.6 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
3.7 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
3.7 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
4.5 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
4.6 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
4.8 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
4.8 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
Strawberry Close
BCT · Locking Stumps
- 0.2 miles
Strawberry Close
BCT · Locking Stumps
- 0.2 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Locking Stumps
- 0.2 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Locking Stumps
- 0.2 miles
Turf & Feather
BCT · Birchwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 004C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,161 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 11
- 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
51 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. Locking Stumps Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 430 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
916 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 427 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.