Schools
68 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 10 secondary schools. Bewsey Lodge Academy is the nearest published school at 655 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA5 5BL
Bewsey and Whitecross · Warrington · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA5 5BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA5
- Postcode sector
- WA5 5
- Latitude
- 53.403413
- Longitude
- -2.604685
- British National Grid easting
- 359,895
- British National Grid northing
- 389,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Warrington · E06000007
- Electoral ward
- Bewsey and Whitecross · E05011025
- Parish or community
- E43000007
- Westminster constituency
- Warrington South · E14001565
- Output area
- E00188862
- Lower layer super output area
- Warrington 013C · E01012455
- Middle layer super output area
- Warrington 013 · E02002602
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
- 68
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 10
- 655 m
Bewsey Lodge Academy
Academy converter
- 695 m
Dallam Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 913 m
St Alban's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,438
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,619
- Public order 384
- Shoplifting 218
- Anti social behaviour 218
- Other theft 207
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
21
within 5 km
FOLLY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
FOLLY LANE, BEWSEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 0LU
ODS code N81056
605 m
4 SEASONS MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81645
1.1 km
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
ORFORD JUBILEE PARK H/C, JUBILEE WAY, ORFORD, WARRINGTON, WA2 8HE
ODS code N81083
1.1 km
THE ERIC MOORE PARTNERSHIP
MEDI CENTRE, 1 TANNERS LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NJ
ODS code N81628
1.2 km
GUARDIAN STREET MED/CTR
GUARDIAN STREET, WARRINGTON, WA5 1UD
ODS code N81012
1.3 km
DALLAM LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
20 DALLAM LANE, WARRINGTON, WA2 7NG
ODS code N81097
1.3 km
SPRINGFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE BATHS HLTH & W/B CTR, LEGH STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 1UG
ODS code N81036
1.6 km
COCKHEDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
7 COCKHEDGE WAY, WARRINGTON, WA1 2QQ
ODS code N81637
1.7 km
WESTBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
301-302 WESTBROOK CENTRE, WESTBROOK, WARRINGTON, WA5 8UF
ODS code N81122
1.9 km
HELSBY STREET MED/CTR
2 HELSBY STREET, WARRINGTON, WA1 3AW
ODS code N81041
2.1 km
CHAPELFORD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
SANTA ROSA BOULEVARD, GREAT SANKEY, WARRINGTON, WA5 3AL
ODS code Y04925
2.3 km
GREENBANK SURGERY
274 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81089
2.3 km
MANCHESTER ROAD SURGERY
280 MANCHESTER ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA1 3RB
ODS code N81107
2.3 km
CAUSEWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
166-170 WILDERSPOOL CAUSEWAY, WARRINGTON, WA4 6QA
ODS code N81028
2.7 km
FEARNHEAD CROSS MED.CTR.
25 FEARNHEAD CROSS, INSALL ROAD, PADGATE, FEARNHEAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0HD
ODS code N81048
3.1 km
PADGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
12 STATION ROAD, PADGATE, WARRINGTON, WA2 0RX
ODS code N81109
3.2 km
LATCHFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 THELWALL LANE, LATCHFORD, WARRINGTON, WA4 1LJ
ODS code N81065
3.8 km
STOCKTON HEATH MED.CENTRE
THE FORGE, LONDON ROAD, STOCKTON HEATH, WARRINGTON, WA4 6HJ
ODS code N81075
3.8 km
PENKETH HEALTH CENTRE
HONITON WAY, PENKETH, WARRINGTON, WA5 2EY
ODS code N81020
3.9 km
FAIRFIELD SURGERY
WOOLSTON CLINIC, HOLES LANE, WOOLSTON, WARRINGTON, WA1 4LS
ODS code Y01108
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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
- 0.0 miles
Longshaw Belle
BCT · Bewsey
- 0.0 miles
Southworth Avenue
BCT · Bewsey
- 0.1 miles
Transport Club
BCT · Dallam
- 0.1 miles
Transport Club
BCT · Dallam
- 0.1 miles
Norreys Avenue
BCT · Bewsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Warrington 013C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,911 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,438 published events cover 12 months, averaging 286.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,619 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.