Property market
The five-year median is £294,995 from 3 recorded sales in WA8 5EF. 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 5EF
Farnworth · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 5EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 5
- Latitude
- 53.389656
- Longitude
- -2.721985
- British National Grid easting
- 352,081
- British National Grid northing
- 388,332
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Farnworth · E05013177
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00062527
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 001C · E01012395
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Delville Wood Drive, Widnes, WA8 5EF | 31 January 2025 | £275,495 |
| 14, Delville Wood Drive, Widnes, WA8 5EF | 20 December 2024 | £294,995 |
| 18, Delville Wood Drive, Widnes, WA8 5EF | 20 December 2024 | £429,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 7
- 545 m
Lunts Heath Primary School
Community school
- 818 m
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.2 km
Moorfield Primary School
Community 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 291
- Anti social behaviour 72
- Public order 60
- Other theft 41
- Criminal damage and arson 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA8 5 residents
- 3,423
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
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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
1.1 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
1.8 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
2.0 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
2.8 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
FOUR ACRE HEALTH CENTRE
BURNAGE AVENUE, CLOCK FACE, ST. HELENS, WA9 4QB
ODS code N83021
3.3 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
3.3 km
RAINHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
529 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LP
ODS code N83010
4.0 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
4.1 km
PENKETH HEALTH CENTRE
HONITON WAY, PENKETH, WARRINGTON, WA5 2EY
ODS code N81020
4.4 km
LONGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
451 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LL
ODS code N83053
4.5 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
Church View
BCT · Lunts Heath
- 0.1 miles
Church View
BCT · Lunts Heath
- 0.2 miles
Glebe Garage
BCT · Farnworth
- 0.2 miles
Glebe Garage
BCT · Farnworth
- 0.3 miles
Cranshaw Lane
BCT · Lunts Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 001C, 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
31,258 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 7 secondary schools. Lunts Heath Primary School is the nearest published school at 545 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 291 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.