Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Bridgewater High School is the nearest published school at 770 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA4 5HX
Appleton · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Appleton
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South
- Postcode district
- WA4
- Postcode sector
- WA4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA4 5HX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA4
- Postcode sector
- WA4 5
- Latitude
- 53.356022
- Longitude
- -2.572387
- British National Grid easting
- 362,000
- British National Grid northing
- 384,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Appleton · E05011024
- Parish or community
- E04000319
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington South · E14001565
- Output area
- E00062771
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 025A · E01012446
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 025 · E02002614
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 WA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 770 m
Bridgewater High School
Academy converter
- 807 m
Broomfields Junior School
Academy converter
- 964 m
St Monica's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 398
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 183
- Public order 39
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Criminal damage and arson 30
- Other theft 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA4 5 residents
- 7,575
Age bands in WA4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
1,093 residents
713 residents
1,194 residents
2,435 residents
1,822 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
STRETTON MEDICAL CENTRE
5 HATTON LANE, STRETTON, WARRINGTON, WA4 4NE
ODS code N81623
1.8 km
STOCKTON HEATH MED.CENTRE
THE FORGE, LONDON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6HJ
ODS code N81075
1.9 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
2.9 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
3.0 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
4.1 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
4.1 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
4.3 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
4.4 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
4.5 km
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
4.5 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
4.5 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Larkstoke Close
BCT · Dudlows Green
- 0.2 miles
Larkstoke Close
BCT · Dudlows Green
- 0.2 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Appleton
- 0.2 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Appleton
- 0.3 miles
Staines Close
BCT · Dudlows Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 025A, 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
32,727 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
398 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 183 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.