Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Helsby High School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA6 7WA
Frodsham · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 7WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA6
- Postcode sector
- WA6 7
- Latitude
- 53.290098
- Longitude
- -2.740391
- British National Grid easting
- 350,742
- British National Grid northing
- 377,269
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Helsby High School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Luke's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.4 km
Frodsham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 300
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 132
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Public order 39
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Shoplifting 18
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
PRINCEWAY SURGERIES
PRINCEWAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRODSHAM, WA6 6RX
ODS code N81030
963 m
HELSBY HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER ROBIN HOOD LANE, HELSBY, FRODSHAM, WA6 0BW
ODS code N81005
3.0 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
4.9 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Netherton Hall
BCT · Netherton
- 0.4 miles
Netherton Hall
BCT · Netherton
- 0.5 miles
Cheshire Cheese PH
BCT · Frodsham
- 0.6 miles
Woodhouses Park
BCT · Frodsham
- 0.6 miles
Woodhouses Park
BCT · Frodsham
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
300 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.