Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 5 secondary schools. Astmoor Primary School is the nearest published school at 103 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA7 2ST
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 2ST
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 2
- Latitude
- 53.338823
- Longitude
- -2.691796
- British National Grid easting
- 354,034
- British National Grid northing
- 382,657
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
- E00062470
- 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
- 57
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 5
- 103 m
Astmoor Primary School
Community school
- 141 m
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 478 m
Bridgewater Park Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,164
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 993
- Public order 243
- Criminal damage and arson 174
- Anti social behaviour 168
- Drugs 139
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- WA7 2 residents
- 15,820
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in WA7 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
2,851 residents
1,751 residents
3,841 residents
3,980 residents
3,071 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA7 2 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+
- 60.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 8.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 8.7%
- 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
9
within 5 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
0 m
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
1.5 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
1.5 km
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
2.5 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
2.7 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
2.7 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
3.9 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
3.9 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
4.2 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
- 0.0 miles
Castlefields Ctr.
BCT · Halton Village
- 0.0 miles
Castlefields Ctr.
BCT · Halton Village
- 0.2 miles
Castlefields Avenue North
BCT · Castlefields
- 0.2 miles
Castlefields
BCT · Halton Village
- 0.2 miles
Castlefields
BCT · Halton Village
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.
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
Recorded crime
2,164 published events cover 12 months, averaging 180.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 993 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.