Property market
The five-year median is £174,000 from 4 recorded sales in WA8 8GW. 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 8GW
Ditton, Hale Village & Halebank · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Widnes
- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 8GW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 8
- Latitude
- 53.363685
- Longitude
- -2.767004
- British National Grid easting
- 349,056
- British National Grid northing
- 385,474
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Halton · E06000006
- Electoral ward
- Ditton, Hale Village & Halebank · E05013176
- Parish or community
- E43000006
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00062509
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 006D · E01012388
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 006 · E02002579
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| St Michaels Trade Park, Unit 2, St Michaels Road, Widnes, WA8 8GW | 15 August 2025 | £228,000 |
| St Michaels Trade Park, Unit 1, St Michaels Road, Widnes, WA8 8GW | 15 August 2025 | £237,000 |
| St Michaels Trade Park, Unit 5, St Michaels Road, Widnes, WA8 8GW | 9 July 2025 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 4
- 319 m
St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 653 m
Oakfield Community Primary School
Community school
- 912 m
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,516
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 756
- Public order 154
- Anti social behaviour 124
- Drugs 106
- Criminal damage and arson 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA8 8 residents
- 12,617
Age bands in WA8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
2,410 residents
1,311 residents
3,247 residents
3,416 residents
2,581 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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
62 m
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
1.4 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
1.7 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
2.1 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
2.1 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
2.4 km
PEELHOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PLAZA, PEEL HOUSE LANE, WIDNES, WA8 6TN
ODS code N81045
3.1 km
BEVAN GROUP PRACTICE
BEVAN WAY, WIDNES, WA8 6TR
ODS code N81011
3.3 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
3.4 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
3.4 km
ROSEHEATH SURGERY
ROSEHEATH DRIVE, HALEWOOD, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83031
3.9 km
THE HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
THE HALEWOOD CENTRE, ROSEHEATH DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83013
3.9 km
HOLLIES MEDICAL CENTRE
HOLLIES ROAD, HALEWOOD VLGE, LIVERPOOL, L26 0TH
ODS code N83605
4.1 km
THE MARGARET THOMPSON MED CENTRE
105 EAST MILLWOOD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L24 6TH
ODS code N82001
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wyncroft Road
BCT · Ditton
- 0.1 miles
Wyncroft Road
BCT · Ditton
- 0.1 miles
St. Michaels
BCT · Ditton
- 0.2 miles
St. Michaels
BCT · Ditton
- 0.2 miles
St. Michaels
BCT · Ditton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 006D, 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
4,244 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School is the nearest published school at 319 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,516 published events cover 12 months, averaging 126.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 756 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.