Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Elton Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA6 0HA
Sandstone · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sandstone
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA6 0HA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 0
- Latitude
- 53.265281
- Longitude
- -2.800024
- British National Grid easting
- 346,736
- British National Grid northing
- 374,551
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Sandstone · E05012234
- Parish or community
- E04012571
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00092337
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022A · E01018308
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 022 · E02003794
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 WA6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.5 km
Elton Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Horn's Mill Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Alvanley and Manley Village School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 180
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 78
- Public order 20
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Burglary 13
- Shoplifting 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA6 0 residents
- 4,256
Age bands in WA6 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
647 residents
397 residents
1,061 residents
1,137 residents
949 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
2.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Chester Services Coach Stop
BCT · Hapsford
- 0.4 miles
Hapsford Lane
BCT · Hapsford
- 0.4 miles
Moor Lane
BCT · Hapsford
- 0.5 miles
Parklands Drive
BCT · Elton
- 0.5 miles
Parklands Drive
BCT · Elton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 022A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,891 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
180 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 78 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.