Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 4 secondary schools. Finch Woods Academy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA8 8NX
Ditton, Hale Village & Halebank · Halton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA8 8NX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA8
- Postcode sector
- WA8 8
- Latitude
- 53.352946
- Longitude
- -2.803438
- British National Grid easting
- 346,618
- British National Grid northing
- 384,306
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
- E04000317
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00170537
- Lower layer super output area
- Halton 008B · E01012391
- Middle layer super output area
- Halton 008 · E02002581
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
- 40
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.5 km
Finch Woods Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.7 km
St Ambrose Catholic Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.9 km
Halebank CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Public order 19
- Drugs 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WA8 8 residents
- 12,617
2 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA8 8 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+
- 0%
- 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
17
within 5 km
THE MARGARET THOMPSON MED CENTRE
105 EAST MILLWOOD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L24 6TH
ODS code N82001
1.4 km
ROSEHEATH SURGERY
ROSEHEATH DRIVE, HALEWOOD, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83031
1.6 km
THE HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
THE HALEWOOD CENTRE, ROSEHEATH DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83013
1.6 km
HOLLIES MEDICAL CENTRE
HOLLIES ROAD, HALEWOOD VLGE, LIVERPOOL, L26 0TH
ODS code N83605
2.4 km
SPEKE HC - DR SINGH & DR BICHA
SPEKE NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH CENTRE, 75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82650
2.7 km
SPEKE HC - DR THAKUR
75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82109
2.7 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
2.8 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
3.7 km
HILLFOOT HEALTH
HUNTS CROSS HEALTH CENTRE, 70 HILLFOOT ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 0ND
ODS code N82116
3.8 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
4.0 km
NETHERLEY HEALTH CENTRE
MIDDLEMASS HEY, NETHERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L27 7AF
ODS code N82036
4.6 km
NEWTOWN SURGERY
OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81064
4.6 km
OAKS PLACE SURGERY
WIDNES HEALTH CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, OAKS PLACE, CALDWELL ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7GD
ODS code N81619
4.6 km
GROVE HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81066
4.9 km
TOWER HOUSE PRACTICE
ST. PAULS HEALTH CENTRE, HIGH STREET, RUNCORN, WA7 1AB
ODS code N81057
4.9 km
WOOLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CTR
4/6 WOOLTON STREET, LIVERPOOL, L25 5JA
ODS code N82066
4.9 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
5.0 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
- 0.2 miles
Carr Lane
BCT · Ditton
- 0.2 miles
Carr Lane
BCT · Ditton
- 0.2 miles
Lower Road
BCT · Ditton
- 0.2 miles
Carr Lane
BCT · Ditton
- 0.3 miles
Ramsbrook Lane
BCT · Ditton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Halton 008B, 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
4,984 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
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 98 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.