Property market
The five-year median is £342,500 from 4 recorded sales in WA8 5AY. 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.
WA8 5AY
Birchfield · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Widnes
- Ward
- Birchfield
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 5AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 5
- Latitude
- 53.390657
- Longitude
- -2.739039
- British National Grid easting
- 350,948
- British National Grid northing
- 388,455
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Birchfield · E05013172
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00170544
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 001B · E01012393
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 001 · E02002574
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
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, Norlands Lane, Widnes, WA8 5AY | 10 December 2025 | £445,000 |
| 11, Norlands Lane, Widnes, WA8 5AY | 12 August 2024 | £250,000 |
| 23, Norlands Lane, Widnes, WA8 5AY | 21 October 2022 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 805 m
Lunts Heath Primary School
Community school
- 864 m
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.3 km
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 627
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 276
- Anti social behaviour 71
- Public order 69
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Other theft 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WA8 5 residents
- 3,423
11 female, 13 male
Age bands in WA8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
519 residents
256 residents
718 residents
857 residents
583 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA8 5 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+
- 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
1.1 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
1.6 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
2.2 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
2.3 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
2.4 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
3.2 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
3.2 km
RAINHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
529 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LP
ODS code N83010
3.3 km
FOUR ACRE HEALTH CENTRE
BURNAGE AVENUE, CLOCK FACE, ST. HELENS, WA9 4QB
ODS code N83021
3.3 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
3.5 km
LONGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
451 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LL
ODS code N83053
3.6 km
CEDAR CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHISTON PCRC, OLD COLLIERY ROAD, WHISTON, PRESCOT, L35 3SX
ODS code N83609
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Globe
BCT · Upton Rocks
- 0.1 miles
Birchfield Gardens
BCT · Upton Rocks
- 0.1 miles
The Globe
BCT · Lunts Heath
- 0.2 miles
The Globe
BCT · Lunts Heath
- 0.2 miles
Hillcrest
BCT · Upton Rocks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 001B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,434 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
51 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lunts Heath Primary School is the nearest published school at 805 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
627 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 276 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.