Property market
The five-year median is £110,000 from 2 recorded sales in WA7 1BB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Halton is £193,134 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
WA7 1BB
Bridgewater · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Runcorn
- Ward
- Bridgewater
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 1BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
- Latitude
- 53.341546
- Longitude
- -2.729644
- British National Grid easting
- 351,517
- British National Grid northing
- 382,985
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Bridgewater · E05013173
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00062701
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 012E · E01012430
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 012 · E02002585
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 WA7
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Penketh Court, Runcorn, WA7 1BB | 9 May 2022 | £110,000 |
| 9, Penketh Court, Runcorn, WA7 1BB | 9 May 2022 | £110,000 |
| 9, Penketh Court, Runcorn, WA7 1BB | 17 March 2020 | £102,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 68
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 7
- 397 m
St Edward's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 418 m
Runcorn All Saints CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 540 m
Victoria Road Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,775
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 800
- Public order 192
- Anti social behaviour 149
- Criminal damage and arson 141
- Drugs 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- WA7 1 residents
- 6,988
12 female, 5 male
Age bands in WA7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.6%
1,412 residents
872 residents
2,639 residents
2,164 residents
753 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA7 1 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
14
within 5 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
192 m
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
192 m
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
2.3 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
2.3 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
2.5 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
2.8 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
2.8 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
3.4 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
3.5 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
3.9 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
4.3 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
4.6 km
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
4.9 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
RUNCORN HIGH STREET- STAND B
BCT · Runcorn
- 0.1 miles
RUNCORN HIGH STREET- STAND C
BCT · Runcorn
- 0.1 miles
Runcorn High Street Bus Station
BCT · Runcorn
- 0.1 miles
Runcorn High Street Bus Station
BCT · Runcorn
- 0.1 miles
RUNCORN HIGH STREET- STAND A
BCT · Runcorn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 012E, 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
976 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Schools
68 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 7 secondary schools. St Edward's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 397 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,775 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 800 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.