Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Helsby High School is the nearest published school at 289 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA6 0HZ
Helsby · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Helsby
- 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 0HZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 0
- Latitude
- 53.280298
- Longitude
- -2.747946
- British National Grid easting
- 350,227
- British National Grid northing
- 376,184
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Helsby · E05012220
- Parish or community
- E04011112
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00094371
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 015C · E01018696
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 015 · E02003877
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
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 289 m
Helsby High School
Community school
- 717 m
Helsby Hillside Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Frodsham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 92
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Public order 8
- Other crime 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WA6 0 residents
- 4,256
1 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA6 0 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
1.9 km
PRINCEWAY SURGERIES
PRINCEWAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRODSHAM, WA6 6RX
ODS code N81030
2.0 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
- 0.0 miles
High School
STR · Helsby
- 0.0 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.0 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.0 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.0 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 015C, 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
27,710 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
92 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.