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Winwick

Winwick is a village in Cheshire, England, with a population of around 2,435. There were around 52 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences, with 17 bus stops and Newton-le-Willows railway station 2.7 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Winwick 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 North
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

8°CCloudy

  • Today: 14° / 7° · 19% rain
  • Tomorrow: 13° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:40

9h 33m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

67US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, 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

49 reported · August 2026▲ 63% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences31
  • Public order10
  • Shoplifting3
  • Criminal damage & arson2

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Burtonwood and Winwick · Cheshire

Local policing priorities

  • Drug dealing and usage in residential addresses.

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

143 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 116 rated 4–5 ★ (100 top)
  • 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Newton-le-Willows (2.4 km)
  • 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Newton-Le-Willows (2.4 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 (8.4 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (8.4 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

56 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Premier Inn Warrington (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches10
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds8

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
  • 15 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:

  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • AyeDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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

  • Schools2
  • Parks & greens4
  • Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,325 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

28 jobs advertised · £46,200 avg

e.g. Charge Nurse (RMN or RNLD), Practitioner Psychologist, Chef

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

62% low-carbon electricity

Wind 38% · Gas 35% · Nuclear 25% · Imports 2%

139 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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

23 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in WA2

  • Fearnhead Cross Med.Ctr.
  • Parkview Medical Centre
  • Dallam Lane Medical Centre

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 Oswald's Church, Winwick · 0.3 km

    St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in…

  • Winwick, Cheshire · 0.4 km

    Winwick is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Located within the historic boundaries of Lancashire, it is situated about three miles north of Warrington town centre, nearby is…

  • Winwick Hospital · 0.5 km

    Winwick Hospital was a mental health facility at Winwick, Cheshire, England.

  • Battle of Winwick · 0.8 km

    The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 near the Lancashire village of Winwick between part of a Royalist army under Lieutenant General William Baillie and a Parliamentarian army commanded by Lieutenant Gen…

  • Hermitage Green · 0.9 km

    Hermitage Green is a hamlet near the village of Winwick in Cheshire, England. It is also the location of St Oswald's Well.

  • Winwick rail crash · 1.4 km

    The Winwick rail crash took place at Winwick Junction, near Warrington on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, on 28 September 1934. Two trains collided, resulting in 11 deaths and 19 injured.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Winwick?
Winwick is a town in Cheshire, England, in the Warrington local authority.
What is the population of Winwick?
Winwick has an approximate settlement population of 2,435.
How deprived is Winwick?
The Warrington local authority, which includes Winwick, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.