Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Bridge School is the nearest published school at 263 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA7 1PD
Halton Castle · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Halton Castle
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 1PD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
- Latitude
- 53.341841
- Longitude
- -2.702869
- British National Grid easting
- 353,300
- British National Grid northing
- 383,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Halton Castle · E05013179
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00170540
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 010B · E01012382
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 010 · E02002583
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 6
- 263 m
The Bridge School
Pupil referral unit
- 750 m
Astmoor Primary School
Community school
- 855 m
The Brow Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,825
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 857
- Public order 211
- Anti social behaviour 146
- Criminal damage and arson 132
- Drugs 123
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA7 1 residents
- 6,988
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
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
12
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
810 m
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
1.9 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
1.9 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
2.0 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
2.0 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
3.1 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
3.1 km
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
3.3 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
3.6 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
4.5 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
4.9 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chadwick Road
BCT · Astmoor
- 0.1 miles
Chadwick Road
BCT · Astmoor
- 0.2 miles
Davy Road
BCT · Astmoor
- 0.2 miles
Davy Road
BCT · Astmoor
- 0.2 miles
Brindley Road
BCT · Astmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 010B, 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
435 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,825 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 857 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.