Property market
The five-year median is £320,000 from 1 recorded sale in WA7 1QY. 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 1QY
Daresbury, Moore & Sandymoor · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Runcorn
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 1QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2025
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 1
- Latitude
- 53.330147
- Longitude
- -2.653665
- British National Grid easting
- 356,564
- British National Grid northing
- 381,668
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Daresbury, Moore & Sandymoor · E05013175
- Parish or community
- E04000318
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00062480
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 009A · E01012385
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 009 · E02002582
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Norton Crossing Cottage, Red Brow Lane, Norton, Runcorn, WA7 1QY | 18 March 2022 | £320,000 |
| Norton Crossing Cottage, Red Brow Lane, Norton, Runcorn, WA7 1QY | 24 November 2006 | £249,950 |
| Norton Crossing Cottage, Red Brow Lane, Norton, Runcorn, WA7 1QY | 16 June 2000 | £88,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 855 m
St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool
Voluntary aided school
- 885 m
Gorsewood Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
St Berteline's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 832
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 417
- Public order 99
- Anti social behaviour 74
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA7 1 residents
- 6,988
0 female, 1 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% 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
898 m
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
2.7 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
2.9 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Littlebourne Park
BCT · Murdishaw
- 0.4 miles
Marina Village
BCT · Murdishaw
- 0.4 miles
Daresbury Park
BCT · Red Brow
- 0.5 miles
Chester Road
BCT · Preston on the Hill
- 0.5 miles
Chester Road
BCT · Preston on the Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 009A, 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
30,002 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool is the nearest published school at 855 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
832 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 417 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.