Property market
The five-year median is £18,967,432 from 1 recorded sale in WA7 3GA. 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 3GA
Norton South & Preston Brook · 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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 3GA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 May 2018
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 3
- Latitude
- 53.313263
- Longitude
- -2.654187
- British National Grid easting
- 356,512
- British National Grid northing
- 379,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Norton South & Preston Brook · E05013186
- Parish or community
- E04000316
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00062491
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Cube, Aston Lane North, Preston Brook, Runcorn, WA7 3GA | 18 May 2022 | £18,967,432 |
| Wincanton Logistics, Aston Lane North, Preston Brook, Runcorn, WA7 3GA | 7 February 2019 | £10,685,000 |
| Wincanton Logistics, Aston Lane North, Preston Brook, Runcorn, WA7 3GA | 7 February 2019 | £10,685,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.3 km
Gorsewood Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Murdishaw West Primary and Nursery School
Community school
- 1.3 km
St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 509
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 293
- Public order 59
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Other theft 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA7 3 residents
- 3,241
Age bands in WA7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
532 residents
276 residents
849 residents
1,105 residents
832 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
1.3 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
3.2 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
3.2 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Aston Lane
BCT · Preston Brook
- 0.1 miles
Whitehouse
BCT · Preston Brook
- 0.2 miles
Guinness
BCT · Preston Brook
- 0.2 miles
Guinness
BCT · Preston Brook
- 0.2 miles
YKK
BCT · Preston Brook
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.
Evidence in context
Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 4 secondary schools. Gorsewood Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
509 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 293 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.