Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Penketh High School is the nearest published school at 526 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA5 3JP
Penketh and Cuerdley · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Penketh and Cuerdley
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA5 3JP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 3
- Latitude
- 53.385265
- Longitude
- -2.653968
- British National Grid easting
- 356,600
- British National Grid northing
- 387,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Penketh and Cuerdley · E05011039
- Parish or community
- E04000329
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington South · E14001565
- Output area
- E00063199
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 019F · E01012532
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 019 · E02002608
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 526 m
Penketh High School
Academy converter
- 569 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 596 m
Penketh South Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 655
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 352
- Public order 85
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Other theft 40
- Criminal damage and arson 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA5 3 residents
- 13,354
Age bands in WA5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
2,446 residents
1,395 residents
3,621 residents
3,774 residents
2,033 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
PENKETH HEALTH CENTRE
HONITON WAY, PENKETH, WARRINGTON, WA5 2EY
ODS code N81020
200 m
CHAPELFORD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
SANTA ROSA BOULEVARD, GREAT SANKEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 3AL
ODS code Y04925
1.7 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
3.0 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
3.3 km
FOLLY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOLLY LANE, BEWSEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 0LU
ODS code N81056
3.4 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
3.8 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
3.9 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
4.0 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
4.3 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
4.3 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
4.7 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
4.8 km
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
4.9 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Greystone Park
BCT · Penketh
- 0.1 miles
Greystone Road
BCT · Penketh
- 0.1 miles
Honiton Way Shops
BCT · Penketh
- 0.1 miles
Honiton Way Shops
BCT · Penketh
- 0.2 miles
Coronation Drive
BCT · Penketh
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 019F, 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
28,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
655 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 352 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.