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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 less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). 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
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 07:14Sunset 16:32

9h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

465 reported · August 2026▲ 2% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences181
  • Public order71
  • Anti-social behaviour50
  • Other theft32

49 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Fairfield and Howley · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • What can be done about anti-social behaviour on St Elphin's Park.

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

  • 386 rated 4–5 ★ (295 top)
  • 37 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

£259,224 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 (11.1 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (11.1 km)

17 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)

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

  • In a conservation area (Church Street)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 129 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:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas

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

10,325 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

79% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Nuclear 24% · Gas 19% · Imports 3%

75 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

  • 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 less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.