Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 5 secondary schools. Widnes Academy is the nearest published school at 732 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA8 0PY
Central & West Bank · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central & West Bank
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 0PY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 0
- Latitude
- 53.355811
- Longitude
- -2.734079
- British National Grid easting
- 351,238
- British National Grid northing
- 384,575
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Central & West Bank · E05013174
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00062754
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 007D · E01012441
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 007 · E02002580
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 WA8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 5
- 732 m
Widnes Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 744 m
Poppy Field School
Other independent special school
- 884 m
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 893
- Public order 259
- Shoplifting 215
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Criminal damage and arson 151
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA8 0 residents
- 4,002
Age bands in WA8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.4%
648 residents
364 residents
1,071 residents
862 residents
494 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
13
within 5 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
716 m
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
716 m
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
1.6 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
1.6 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
2.0 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
2.3 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
2.4 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
2.7 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
3.0 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
3.4 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
3.4 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
4.2 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
WATERLOO CENTRE
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.0 miles
Pitt Street
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.2 miles
WEST BANK STREET
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.2 miles
WATERLOO CENTRE
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.2 miles
ASHLEY WAY
BCT · Widnes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 007D, 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
438 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- 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
2,228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 185.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 893 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.