Property market
The five-year median is £257,500 from 2 recorded sales in WA9 5BF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for St Helens is £186,435 in June 2026, up 11.1% year on year.
WA9 5BF
Thatto Heath · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St Helens
- Ward
- Thatto Heath
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston
- Postcode district
- WA9
- Postcode sector
- WA9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA9 5BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA9
- Postcode sector
- WA9 5
- Latitude
- 53.428710
- Longitude
- -2.749962
- British National Grid easting
- 350,266
- British National Grid northing
- 392,696
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Thatto Heath · E05014135
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston · E14001510
- Output area
- E00168441
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 025C · E01032904
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 025 · E02006936
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
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Swan Gardens, St Helens, WA9 5BF | 5 December 2025 | £260,000 |
| 8, Swan Gardens, St Helens, WA9 5BF | 23 August 2024 | £255,000 |
| 3, Swan Gardens, St Helens, WA9 5BF | 28 February 2020 | £169,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 8
- 126 m
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 891 m
Nutgrove Methodist Primary School
Academy converter
- 921 m
Thatto Heath Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,469
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 662
- Criminal damage and arson 140
- Public order 134
- Drugs 117
- Anti social behaviour 117
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- WA9 5 residents
- 13,201
10 female, 8 male
Age bands in WA9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
2,543 residents
1,481 residents
3,543 residents
3,661 residents
2,337 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA9 5 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+
- 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
22
within 5 km
THE BOWERY MEDICAL CENTRE
ELEPHANT LANE, ST. HELENS, WA9 5PR
ODS code N83050
991 m
THE SPINNEY MEDICAL CTR.
WHITTLE STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 3EB
ODS code N83035
1.6 km
RAINHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
529 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LP
ODS code N83010
1.7 km
LONGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
451 WARRINGTON ROAD, RAINHILL, PRESCOT, L35 4LL
ODS code N83053
1.8 km
FOUR ACRE HEALTH CENTRE
BURNAGE AVENUE, CLOCK FACE, ST. HELENS, WA9 4QB
ODS code N83021
2.1 km
MARSHALLS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. HELENS HOSPITAL, MARSHALLS CROSS ROAD, ST. HELENS, WA9 3DA
ODS code Y02510
2.4 km
BETHANY MEDICAL CENTRE
151 GRAFTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 4GW
ODS code N83054
2.8 km
HALL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
28-30 HALL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 1DW
ODS code N83017
2.9 km
ECCLESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
4 MILLFIELDS COURT, ECCLESTON, ST. HELENS, WA10 5RG
ODS code N83614
2.9 km
RAINBOW MEDICAL CENTRE
333 ROBINS LANE, SUTTON, ST. HELENS, WA9 3PN
ODS code N83001
3.0 km
CENTRAL SURGERY
LOWE HOUSE, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83027
3.2 km
NEWHOLME SURGERY
LOWE HSE HCRC, 103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83637
3.2 km
ORMSKIRK HOUSE SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83003
3.2 km
PARKFIELD SURGERY
103 CRAB STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2DJ
ODS code N83026
3.2 km
MILL STREET MEDICAL CTR.
2 MILL STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2BD
ODS code N83012
3.2 km
LINGHOLME HEALTH CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83007
3.3 km
PHOENIX MEDICAL CENTRE
ATHERTON STREET, ST. HELENS, WA10 2HT
ODS code N83006
3.3 km
ATLAS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATLAS STREET, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LN
ODS code N83023
3.3 km
PARK HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESCOT P/CARE RES CTR, SEWELL STREET, PRESCOT, L34 1ND
ODS code N83024
3.7 km
PRESCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESCOT P/CARE RES CTR, SEWELL STREET, PRESCOT, L34 1ND
ODS code N83603
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 22 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Broads
BCT · Sutton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Elton Head Road
BCT · Sutton Heath
- 0.2 miles
The Broads
BCT · Sutton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Basildon Close
BCT · Sutton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Elton Head Road
BCT · Sutton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 025C, 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
30,524 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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
Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 8 secondary schools. St John Vianney Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 126 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,469 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 662 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.