Property market
The five-year median is £166,050 from 7 recorded sales in WA7 6BE. 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 6BE
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA7 6BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA7
- Postcode sector
- WA7 6
- Latitude
- 53.315251
- Longitude
- -2.678010
- British National Grid easting
- 354,927
- British National Grid northing
- 380,026
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
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby · E14001455
- Output area
- E00062731
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 014E · E01012440
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 014 · E02002587
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
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 47, Porthleven Road, Brookvale, Runcorn, WA7 6BE | 18 November 2025 | £195,000 |
| 21, Porthleven Road, Brookvale, Runcorn, WA7 6BE | 2 May 2025 | £181,000 |
| 13, Porthleven Road, Brookvale, Runcorn, WA7 6BE | 2 May 2025 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 4
- 291 m
Brookvale Primary School
Community school
- 632 m
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 935 m
Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 670
- Public order 128
- Criminal damage and arson 77
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Drugs 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 108
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- WA7 6 residents
- 15,124
60 female, 48 male
Age bands in WA7 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
2,932 residents
1,741 residents
3,658 residents
3,923 residents
2,729 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA7 6 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+
- 98%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 98%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98%
- 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
7
within 5 km
MURDISHAW
GORSEWOOD ROAD, MURDISHAW, RUNCORN, WA7 6ES
ODS code N81072
1.4 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
1.7 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
1.7 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
2.8 km
PRINCEWAY SURGERIES
PRINCEWAY HEALTH CENTRE, FRODSHAM, WA6 6RX
ODS code N81030
4.1 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
4.6 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
4.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ridding Lane
BCT · Brookvale
- 0.1 miles
Ridding Lane
BCT · Brookvale
- 0.2 miles
Southern Expressway
BCT · Sutton Weaver
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sutton Weaver
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sutton Weaver
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 014E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,858 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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
42 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 4 secondary schools. Brookvale Primary School is the nearest published school at 291 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 670 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.