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Warrington

Warrington is a town or village in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 9. It has around 1 school, 3 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, and around 9 restaurants and cafés, along with 39 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Padgate, 0.7 km away. There were around 194 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly Violence & sexual offences. Covers 11 towns with local open-data for the whole authority.

On deprivation, Warrington is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). It is home to around 210,974 residents at roughly 1,168 people per km².

65/ 100

My Area Score

Excellent

Ranked 41st of 294 English council areas — better than 86% of them.

Low crime55
Home affordability80
Affordable rents89
Good schools95
Life expectancy35
Low deprivation67
Employment64
Low council tax47

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°COvercast

  • Today: 12° / 7° · 20% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:16Sunset 16:30

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Glazebury, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 4.9% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

176 reported · August 2026▼ 2% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences70
  • Anti-social behaviour21
  • Public order19
  • Other theft18

7 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Poulton South · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • Residents are concerned with the use of illegal E-bikes.

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

Road safety

328 reported road collisions (2025)

80 killed or seriously injured · 412 casualties · 15.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 352 rated 4–5 ★ (271 top)
  • 34 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Padgate (0.7 km)
  • 39 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Padgate (0.7 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£259,224 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Warrington · to 2026-08

Detached£443,902
Semi-detached£269,053
Terraced£207,583
Flat£135,874

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£899 average monthly rent▲ 5.3% YoY

  • 1 bed £673
  • 2 bed £835
  • 3 bed £1,016

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

6.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.2 times median annual pay (6.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,777 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · BP (9.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (9.8 km)

14 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

46 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Bentleys Toyota (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres5
  • Sports pitches75
  • Playgrounds23

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

210,974 residents in Warrington · 1,168/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,559
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK10,031
  • Net moves+528

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 199 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

6% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,448 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (29% of 97,380)

A £1,632
B £1,904
C £2,176
D £2,448
E £2,992
F £3,535
G £4,079
H £4,895

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

96 schools · 31,467 pupils

69 primary · 13 secondary · 14 other

Ofsted: 40 of 40 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

88 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Bridgewater High SchoolGood
  • Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolGood
  • Lymm High SchoolGood
  • Padgate AcademyGood
  • Penketh High SchoolGood
  • Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High SchoolGood
  • St Gregory's Catholic High SchoolGood
  • Aldridge UTC Warrington
  • Beamont Collegiate Academy
  • Birchwood Community High School
  • Culcheth High School
  • Great Sankey High School
  • King's Leadership Academy Warrington

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Warrington

Care & health services

214 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes57
  • GP practices37
  • Dentists44
  • Homecare agencies47
  • Hospitals & hospices10

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Warrington

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 23 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

233 applications decided

82% granted · 191 granted, 42 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Charlotte Nichols

Labour

Warrington North

Recent votes:

  • AyeRailways Bill: Carry-over extension (Motion)
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 8
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: Amendment 6
  • NoSporting Events Bill [Lords] Report: New Clause 1

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 40
  • Con 2
  • LD 11
  • Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools16
  • GPs & clinics8
  • Pharmacies6
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens23
  • Restaurants & cafés18

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,325 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

2,817 jobs advertised · £43,185 avg

e.g. HGV Driver, Class 1 Driver, Industrial Mechanical Estimator

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£782 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,255 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

51% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 103,149 certificates

9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

78% low-carbon electricity

Wind 50% · Nuclear 28% · Gas 18% · Imports 3%

72 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 83.2 yrs women · 79.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63.3 women · 62.1 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

12 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in WA1

  • Holes Lane Medical Ltd.
  • Springfields Medical Centre
  • Helsby Street Med/Ctr

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Warrington North:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Bruche, Warrington · 0.2 km

    Bruche is a large suburb of Warrington, in the Warrington district, in the traditional county of Lancashire, England.

  • Warrington North · 0.4 km

    Warrington North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2019 by Charlotte Nichols of the Labour Party. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP)…

  • Padgate railway station · 0.7 km

    Padgate railway station is a railway station in the Padgate area of the east of the town of Warrington, in North West England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. It is 14 miles (2…

  • Warrington Rylands 1906 F.C. · 1.0 km

    Warrington Rylands 1906 Football Club is a football club based in Warrington, England. The club currently plays in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, is an FA Charter Standard Club and its nickname is the B…

  • Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, Warrington · 1.2 km

    Cardinal Newman Catholic High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school. It is graded by Ofsted as a 'Good' school, and educates approximately 855 children between 11 and 16 years of age. It is in the…

  • Padgate · 1.2 km

    Padgate is a suburb of the town of Warrington, in the civil parish of Poulton-with-Fearnhead, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)