Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Raise Academy is the nearest published school at 878 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA8 0RY
Halton View · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Halton View
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 0RY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 0
- Latitude
- 53.362566
- Longitude
- -2.709581
- British National Grid easting
- 352,876
- British National Grid northing
- 385,310
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Halton View · E05013181
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00062614
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 003C · E01012412
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 003 · E02002576
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
- 70
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 6
- 878 m
The Raise Academy
Free schools special
- 902 m
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.0 km
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,887
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 764
- Public order 244
- Shoplifting 215
- Anti social behaviour 154
- Criminal damage and arson 141
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+
- 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
1.4 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
1.7 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
1.7 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
2.2 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
2.8 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
2.8 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
2.9 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
3.2 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
3.2 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
3.8 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
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
4.3 km
PENKETH HEALTH CENTRE
HONITON WAY, PENKETH, WARRINGTON, WA5 2EY
ODS code N81020
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Moss Bank Road
BCT · Moss Bank
- 0.1 miles
Moss Bank Road
BCT · Moss Bank
- 0.2 miles
Suttons
BCT · Moss Bank
- 0.2 miles
Suttons
BCT · Moss Bank
- 0.3 miles
Tanhouse Lane
BCT · Lugsdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 003C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,889 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,887 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 764 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.