WA55 postcode district: Warrington and around

WA55 is a postcode district in England, with 8 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Warrington. Its council is Warrington.

Postcodes in use
8
Sectors
1
Council
Warrington

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in WA55, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in WA55, by flood risk Of the 8 postcodes in WA55 that ONS places, 8 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bewsey and Whitecross, Westbrook. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A574A5282 WA55 1AQ: not on the flood risk listWA55 1LR: not on the flood risk list Bewsey and WhitecrossWestbrook Map of every postcode in WA55, by flood risk Of the 8 postcodes in WA55 that ONS places, 8 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Bewsey and Whitecross, Westbrook. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A574 Bewsey and WhitecrossWestbrook
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 8

Of the 8 postcodes in WA55 that ONS places, 8 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.3926, longitude -2.6103. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

What broadband can you get in WA55?

Ofcom reports on 1 of the 8 postcodes in WA55. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit0 of 1
Postcodes where every home can get superfast1 of 1

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is WA55 at risk of flooding?

None of the 8 postcodes in WA55 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in WA55

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

UK postcode format explained

Places in WA55

Towns and villages with postcodes in WA55, and how many each has here.

Who covers WA55

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Warrington South7
  • Warrington North1

Police force areas

  • Cheshire8

Next to WA55

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after WA55 in the WA area.

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