Property market
The five-year median is £208,750 from 4 recorded sales in WA5 1ER. 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.
WA5 1ER
Great Sankey South · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warrington
- Ward
- Great Sankey South
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA5 1ER
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 1
- Latitude
- 53.386663
- Longitude
- -2.626399
- British National Grid easting
- 358,435
- British National Grid northing
- 387,939
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Great Sankey South · E05011033
- Parish or community
- E04000326
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington South · E14001565
- Output area
- E00063026
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 016F · E01012501
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 016 · E02002605
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 WA5
Property
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 87, Hood Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 1ER | 17 October 2025 | £200,000 |
| 77, Hood Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 1ER | 1 July 2025 | £190,200 |
| 71, Hood Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 1ER | 27 January 2023 | £217,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 8
- 600 m
St Gregory's Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
- 641 m
Sankey Valley St James Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 644 m
Evelyn Street Primary Academy and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,648
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 847
- Public order 180
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Criminal damage and arson 107
- Other theft 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WA5 1 residents
- 13,361
8 female, 12 male
Age bands in WA5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,358 residents
1,389 residents
3,830 residents
3,489 residents
2,250 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA5 1 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
CHAPELFORD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
SANTA ROSA BOULEVARD, GREAT SANKEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 3AL
ODS code Y04925
1.3 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
1.5 km
FOLLY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOLLY LANE, BEWSEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 0LU
ODS code N81056
1.8 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
1.9 km
PENKETH HEALTH CENTRE
HONITON WAY, PENKETH, WARRINGTON, WA5 2EY
ODS code N81020
2.0 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
2.1 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
2.2 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
2.5 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
2.5 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
2.5 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
3.2 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
3.2 km
STOCKTON HEATH MED.CENTRE
THE FORGE, LONDON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6HJ
ODS code N81075
3.4 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
3.5 km
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
3.8 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
3.8 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Kent Road
BCT · Sankey Bridges
- 0.2 miles
Sankey Bridges
BCT · Sankey Bridges
- 0.2 miles
Sankey Bridges
BCT · Sankey Bridges
- 0.2 miles
Kent Road
BCT · Sankey Bridges
- 0.3 miles
Gatewarth Street
BCT · Sankey Bridges
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 016F, 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
22,329 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Gregory's Catholic High School is the nearest published school at 600 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,648 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 847 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.