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Burtonwood

Burtonwood is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of around 3,361. It has around 1 restaurant and café, 19 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is St Helens Junction, 2.5 km away. There were around 12 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 Burtonwood area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the St. Helens area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 183,247 residents at roughly 1,344 people per km².

Council
St. Helens
County
Merseyside
Constituency
St Helens South and Whiston
Police force
Merseyside
36/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 255th of 294 English council areas — better than 13% of them.

Low crime29
Home affordability87
Affordable rents76
Good schools8
Life expectancy3
Low deprivation23
Employment36
Low council tax60

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

9°CCloudy

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:17Sunset 16:31

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

12 reported · August 2026▼ 45% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences7
  • Other theft1
  • Robbery1
  • Shoplifting1

1 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

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

244 reported road collisions (2025)

46 killed or seriously injured · 301 casualties · 13.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

181 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 145 rated 4–5 ★ (114 top)
  • 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Earlestown (2.8 km)
  • 25 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Earlestown (2.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£186,445 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across St. Helens · to 2026-08

Detached£305,687
Semi-detached£201,418
Terraced£155,878
Flat£98,994

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£807 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £593
  • 2 bed £737
  • 3 bed £901

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

Affordability

5.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.7 times median annual pay (5.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,267 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 (11.9 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (11.9 km)

24 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

60 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: Burtonwood Supercharger (1.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Swimming pools1
  • Sports pitches7
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

183,247 residents in St. Helens · 1,344/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,728
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,418
  • Net moves+1,310

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

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 68 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

23% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,403 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (44% of 86,150)

A £1,602
B £1,869
C £2,136
D £2,403
E £2,937
F £3,472
G £4,006
H £4,807

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

Schools

79 schools · 25,931 pupils

54 primary · 9 secondary · 16 other

Ofsted: 22 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (76%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Rainhill High SchoolGood
  • The Sutton AcademyGood
  • De La Salle SchoolRequires improvement
  • Cowley International College
  • Hope Academy
  • Outwood Academy Haydock
  • Rainford High School
  • St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy
  • St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · St. Helens

Care & health services

164 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes41
  • GP practices31
  • Dentists27
  • Homecare agencies40
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 6 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · St. Helens

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

109 applications decided

92.7% granted · 101 granted, 8 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

Reform UK majority

  • Lab 4
  • Con 1
  • LD 3
  • Ref 34
  • Oth 6

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools2
  • GPs & clinics2
  • Pharmacies1
  • Parks & greens4
  • Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,695 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

5 jobs advertised · £37,138 avg

e.g. Registered Nurse (Nights), Warehouse Operative | Omega, Warehouse Team Leader

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£748 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,753 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 92,695 certificates

12% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

78% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Nuclear 25% · Gas 19% · Imports 3%

77 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 81 yrs women · 77 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 56 women · 55.7 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.1
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Health services

26 GP surgeries · 12 pharmacies in WA5

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

  • Burtonwood · 0.2 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…

  • Collins Green railway station · 1.6 km

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

  • Omega Development Site · 1.8 km

    Omega is a property development site in Warrington, Cheshire comprising 226 hectares straddling the M62 motorway. The site comprises a large part of the former RAF/USAF Burtonwood airbase. A new junction on the M62 w…

  • RAF Burtonwood · 1.8 km

    Royal Air Force Burtonwood is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces station that was located in Burtonwood, 2 miles (3.2 km) Northwest of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The base was opened in 19…

  • Burtonwood services · 2.0 km

    Burtonwood services is a motorway service station on the M62 in Cheshire, near Warrington in England.

  • Bold Power Station · 2.0 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…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Burtonwood?
Burtonwood is a town in Merseyside, England, in the St. Helens local authority.
What is the population of Burtonwood?
Burtonwood has an approximate settlement population of 3,361.
How deprived is Burtonwood?
The St. Helens local authority, which includes Burtonwood, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.