Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Helsby High School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA6 7GQ
Frodsham · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Frodsham
- Ward
- Frodsham
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA6 7GQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 7
- Latitude
- 53.291128
- Longitude
- -2.755291
- British National Grid easting
- 349,750
- British National Grid northing
- 377,394
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Frodsham · E05012215
- Parish or community
- E04012539
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00094320
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 002E · E01018689
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 002 · E02003874
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 3, Grassy Lane, Frodsham, WA6 7GQ | 31 October 2017 | £295,800 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.3 km
Helsby High School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Helsby Hillside Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
St Luke's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 71
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 40
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other crime 4
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA6 7 residents
- 5,758
Age bands in WA6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
868 residents
518 residents
1,254 residents
1,566 residents
1,351 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
PRINCEWAY SURGERIES
PRINCEWAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRODSHAM, WA6 6RX
ODS code N81030
1.9 km
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.7 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.8 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.8 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
- 0.8 miles
High School
BCT · Helsby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 002E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,552 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 2
- 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
71 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 40 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.