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Warrington

Warrington is a city in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 172,330. It has 3 GP surgeries, 5 pharmacies, 4 supermarkets, and around 52 restaurants and cafés, with 67 bus stops and the nearest railway station being Warrington Central, 0.1 km away. The average sold house price is around £296,898, and there were around 478 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Warrington area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Warrington area is around the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 210,974 residents at roughly 1,168 people per km².

Council
Warrington
County
Cheshire
Constituency
Warrington South
Police force
Cheshire
64/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 47th of 294 English council areas — better than 84% of them.

Low crime55
Home affordability80
Affordable rents89
Good schools95
Life expectancy39
Low deprivation55
Employment62
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

17°COvercast

  • Today: 23° / 16° · 36% rain
  • Tomorrow: 18° / 13° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:31

12h 50m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Glazebury, United Kingdom

Crime

434 reported · July 2026 3% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences185
  • Public order57
  • Anti-social behaviour45
  • Shoplifting32

76 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Fairfield and Howley · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • What can be done about the influx of illegal cigarettes, vape shops and other traders that are having a detrimental effect on the communi…

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

Road safety

270 reported road collisions (2024)

52 killed or seriously injured · 340 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 351 rated 4–5 ★ (268 top)
  • 33 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Warrington Central (0.8 km)
  • 78 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Warrington Central (0.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£259,398 average 6.5% YoY

Across Warrington · to 2026-06

Detached£445,181
Semi-detached£269,155
Terraced£207,190
Flat£136,251

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£894 average monthly rent 5.1% YoY

  • 1 bed £670
  • 2 bed £831
  • 3 bed £1,010

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · BP (11.1 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.9p · Morrisons (11.4 km)

27 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

46 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Manchester Road 1 (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres7
  • Gyms6
  • Swimming pools2
  • Sports pitches71
  • Playgrounds24

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)

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 175 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

8% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

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

95 schools · 31,467 pupils

69 primary · 13 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 39 of 39 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (100%)

86inspected 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
  • Beamont Collegiate Academy
  • Birchwood Community High School
  • Culcheth High School
  • Great Sankey High School
  • King's Leadership Academy Warrington
  • UTC Warrington

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Warrington

Care & health services

215 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes56
  • GP practices36
  • Dentists44
  • Homecare agencies49
  • Hospitals & hospices10

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Warrington

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Church Street)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 125 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

197 applications decided

81.7% granted · 161 granted, 36 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Charlotte Nichols

Labour

Warrington North

Recent votes:

  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1
  • NoHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143

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

  • Schools15
  • GPs & clinics10
  • Pharmacies10
  • Supermarkets15
  • Parks & greens26
  • Restaurants & cafés113

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,295 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

3,056 jobs advertised · £42,791 avg

e.g. Roadside Technician - North West, Out of Hours Utilities Scheduler, Commissioning Engineer

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

84% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Nuclear 30% · Gas 12% · Imports 4%

47 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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Warrington North:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • St Elphin's Church, Warrington · 0.2 km

    St Elphin's Church is the parish church of the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglica…

  • Church Street, Warrington · 0.3 km

    Church Street is one of the main thoroughfares of Warrington in Cheshire, England, linking the modern town centre to St Elphin's Church, to the east.

  • Howley Bridge · 0.6 km

    The Howley Bridge is a pedestrian footbridge which spans the River Mersey in Warrington, England. It connects Howley in Warrington to Victoria Park in Latchford.

  • St Mary's Church, Warrington · 0.7 km

    St Mary's Church, or St Mary's Priory, is in the town centre of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active Cathol…

  • Warrington · 0.7 km

    Warrington is an industrial town in Cheshire, England. The town is the main settlement of the Borough of Warrington and sits on the banks of the River Mersey, with the town centre and its suburbs north of that river h…

  • Warrington Academy · 0.8 km

    Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the established Church of England. It was l…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Warrington?
Warrington is a town in Cheshire, England, in the Warrington local authority.
What is the population of Warrington?
Warrington has an approximate settlement population of 172,330.
How deprived is Warrington?
The Warrington local authority, which includes Warrington, is around the average in England on the IoD2019.