St Helens (St. Helens)

9°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 6° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 13° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:13Sunset 16:34

9h 21m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, United Kingdom

• 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

82 reported · August 2026▲ 17% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences44
• Anti-social behaviour7
• Criminal damage & arson7
• Shoplifting6

33 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Burtonwood and Winwick · Cheshire

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

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)

319 food businesses within 2 miles

• 245 rated 4–5 ★ (182 top)
• 22 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: St Helens Junction (1.9 km)
• 26 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£259,224 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Warrington · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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

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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · Esso (7.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Esso (7.8 km)

22 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

54 charging locations within ~8 km

• 18 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons St Helens (2.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Gyms1
• Sports pitches16
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• 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

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

£2,448 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

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)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Warrington

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

• Within the Green Belt
• 1 listed building within ~1.5 km

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

233 applications decided

82% granted · 191 granted, 42 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Charlotte Nichols

Labour

Warrington North

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 40
• Con 2
• LD 11
• Oth 5

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

• Schools5
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,325 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

519 jobs advertised · £37,394 avg

e.g. HGV Class 1 Driver, Production Welder, Client Manager

Source: Adzuna

£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

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

59% low-carbon electricity

Gas 39% · Wind 33% · Nuclear 26% · Imports 2%

153 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

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

• 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

26 GP surgeries · 12 pharmacies in WA5

• Guardian Street Med/Ctr
• Penketh Health Centre
• Folly Lane Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Warrington North:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth263 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK142 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND139 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases132 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Review & amend immigration rules for Hongkongers with political convictions128 local signatures · 11,120 nationwide

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

• Collins Green railway station · 0.9 km

  Collins Green railway station was a railway station in Burtonwood, Warrington, England. It was in operation between 1830 and 1951.

• Bold Power Station · 1.4 km

  Bold Power Station refers to a series of two coal-fired power stations in Bold near St Helens, Merseyside, North West England. They were closed, decommissioned and demolished between 1981 and 1992, and a housing estat…

• Hoghton Road Stadium · 1.5 km

  Hoghton Road Stadium was a sports stadium on Hoghton Road, Sutton, a suburb of St. Helens, the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, England.

• St Cuthbert's Catholic High School · 1.6 km

  St Cuthbert's Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic mixed secondary school situated in St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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  Sankey Viaduct · 1.8 km

  The Sankey Viaduct is a railway viaduct in Newton-le-Willows in North West England. The majority of the viaduct is located within the borough of St Helens, Merseyside, with approximately a third to west of Sankey Broo…

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  Burtonwood · 1.9 km

  Burtonwood is a village in the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, the name Burtonwood is known worldw…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)