Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hillview Primary School is the nearest published school at 319 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA7 3HJ
Beechwood & Heath · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Beechwood & Heath
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 3HJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 3
- Latitude
- 53.311990
- Longitude
- -2.699481
- British National Grid easting
- 353,493
- British National Grid northing
- 379,677
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Beechwood & Heath · E05013171
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00062410
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 016B · E01012372
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 016 · E02002589
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
- 45
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 4
- 319 m
Hillview Primary School
Community school
- 806 m
Beechwood Primary School
Community school
- 978 m
Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 812
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 394
- Public order 102
- Criminal damage and arson 72
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Drugs 48
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
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
PRINCEWAY SURGERIES
PRINCEWAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRODSHAM, WA6 6RX
ODS code N81030
2.8 km
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
2.8 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
3.0 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
3.9 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Clifton
- 0.2 miles
The Holiday Inn
BCT · Beechwood
- 0.2 miles
The Holiday Inn
BCT · Beechwood
- 0.2 miles
Hillview School
BCT · Beechwood
- 0.3 miles
Martindale
BCT · Beechwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 016B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,310 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
812 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 394 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.