Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 7 secondary schools. Ash Meadow School is the nearest published school at 556 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA9 4LW
Bold & Lea Green · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bold & Lea Green
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston
- Postcode district
- WA9
- Postcode sector
- WA9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA9 4LW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA9
- Postcode sector
- WA9 4
- Latitude
- 53.421165
- Longitude
- -2.727213
- British National Grid easting
- 351,769
- British National Grid northing
- 391,841
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Bold & Lea Green · E05014122
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston · E14001510
- Output area
- E00035017
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 022F · E01006911
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 022 · E02001427
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 WA9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 7
- 556 m
Ash Meadow School
Other independent special school
- 557 m
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 691 m
The Sutton Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,245
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 596
- Drugs 111
- Anti social behaviour 107
- Public order 104
- Criminal damage and arson 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA9 4 residents
- 14,445
Age bands in WA9 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
2,397 residents
1,563 residents
3,606 residents
3,938 residents
2,766 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
21
within 5 km
FOUR ACRE HEALTH CENTRE
BURNAGE AVENUE, CLOCK FACE, ST. HELENS, WA9 4QB
ODS code N83021
357 m
MARSHALLS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. HELENS HOSPITAL, MARSHALLS CROSS ROAD, ST. HELENS, WA9 3DA
ODS code Y02510
2.1 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
2.1 km
RAINHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
529 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LP
ODS code N83010
2.5 km
THE BOWERY MEDICAL CENTRE
ELEPHANT LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 5PR
ODS code N83050
2.6 km
LONGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
451 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LL
ODS code N83053
2.9 km
THE SPINNEY MEDICAL CTR.
WHITTLE STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 3EB
ODS code N83035
3.1 km
BERRYMEAD FAMILY MED.CTR.
140 BERRYS LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 3RP
ODS code N83008
3.2 km
HALL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
28-30 HALL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 1DW
ODS code N83017
3.5 km
ATLAS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATLAS STREET, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LN
ODS code N83023
3.7 km
MILL STREET MEDICAL CTR.
2 MILL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2BD
ODS code N83012
4.0 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
LOWE HOUSE, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83027
4.1 km
NEWHOLME SURGERY
LOWE HSE HCRC, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83637
4.1 km
ORMSKIRK HOUSE SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83003
4.1 km
PARKFIELD SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83026
4.1 km
BETHANY MEDICAL CENTRE
151 GRAFTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 4GW
ODS code N83054
4.1 km
LINGHOLME HEALTH CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83007
4.2 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83006
4.2 km
ECCLESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
4 MILLFIELDS COURT, ECCLESTON, ST. HELENS, WA10 5RG
ODS code N83614
4.5 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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
Chester Lane
BCT · Clock Face
- 0.2 miles
Burnage Avenue
BCT · Clock Face
- 0.2 miles
Chester Lane
BCT · Marshalls Cross
- 0.2 miles
Fallow Close
BCT · Clock Face
- 0.2 miles
Fallow Close
BCT · Clock Face
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 022F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,710 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
1,245 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 596 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.