Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 6 secondary schools. Willow Bank School is the nearest published school at 356 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA5 4EJ
Burtonwood and Winwick · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington North
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA5 4EJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 4
- Latitude
- 53.447577
- Longitude
- -2.663507
- British National Grid easting
- 356,030
- British National Grid northing
- 394,738
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Burtonwood and Winwick · E05011027
- Parish or community
- E04000321
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington North · E14001564
- Output area
- E00062877
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 003C · E01012469
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 003 · E02002592
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
- 48
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 6
- 356 m
Willow Bank School
Community special school
- 1.2 km
Lyme Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Burtonwood Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 415
- Shoplifting 172
- Public order 105
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Criminal damage and arson 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA5 4 residents
- 3,778
Age bands in WA5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
521 residents
344 residents
769 residents
1,093 residents
1,078 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 53.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 13.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 13.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 13.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 53.3%
- 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
12
within 5 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
1.4 km
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
1.7 km
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
2.0 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
2.4 km
BERRYMEAD FAMILY MED.CTR.
140 BERRYS LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 3RP
ODS code N83008
2.4 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
3.1 km
MARSHALLS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. HELENS HOSPITAL, MARSHALLS CROSS ROAD, ST. HELENS, WA9 3DA
ODS code Y02510
3.8 km
ATLAS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATLAS STREET, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LN
ODS code N83023
4.1 km
HALL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
28-30 HALL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 1DW
ODS code N83017
4.6 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
4.7 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
4.7 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
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
Penkford Lane
BCT · Newton Common
- 0.1 miles
Penkford Lane
BCT · Newton Common
- 0.2 miles
Collins Green Farm
BCT · Collins Green
- 0.2 miles
Collins Green Farm
BCT · Collins Green
- 0.2 miles
Common Road
BCT · Earlestown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 003C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,410 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Recorded crime
1,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 415 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.