Property market
The five-year median is £200,000 from 2 recorded sales in WA8 6AD. 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 6AD
Central & West Bank · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Widnes
- Ward
- Central & West Bank
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 6AD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 6
- Latitude
- 53.363292
- Longitude
- -2.730812
- British National Grid easting
- 351,464
- British National Grid northing
- 385,405
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
- E00062388
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 007A · E01012367
- 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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22 - 24, Widnes Road, Widnes, WA8 6AD | 12 August 2025 | £200,000 |
| 12, Widnes Road, Widnes, WA8 6AD | 22 August 2023 | £200,000 |
| Brendan House, Widnes Road, Widnes, WA8 6AD | 27 March 2018 | £263,400 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 5
- 179 m
Poppy Field School
Other independent special school
- 234 m
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 273 m
Riverside College Halton
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,777
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,159
- Public order 343
- Anti social behaviour 264
- Shoplifting 217
- Criminal damage and arson 204
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA8 6 residents
- 7,799
Age bands in WA8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,432 residents
813 residents
2,435 residents
2,052 residents
1,319 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 straight-line
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
349 m
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
349 m
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
1.1 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
1.9 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
1.9 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
2.3 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
2.4 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
2.5 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
2.5 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
3.0 km
CASTLEFIELDS HEALTH CENTRE
THE VILLAGE SQUARE, CASTLEFIELDS, RUNCORN, WA7 2ST
ODS code N81019
3.8 km
BROOKVALE PRACTICE
HALLWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81096
4.8 km
WEAVER VALE PRACTICE
HOSPITAL WAY, RUNCORN, WA7 2UT
ODS code N81054
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
WIDNES TOWN HALL
BCT · Widnes
- 0.0 miles
WIDNES TOWN HALL
BCT · Widnes
- 0.1 miles
Vicarage Road
BCT · Widnes
- 0.1 miles
Widnes Vicarage Road (alighting Only)
BCT · Widnes
- 0.1 miles
VICTORIA SQUARE
TXR · Widnes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 007A, 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
1,330 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 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
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
58 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 5 secondary schools. Poppy Field School is the nearest published school at 179 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,777 published events cover 12 months, averaging 231.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,159 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.