WA9 postcode district: St Helens and around
WA9 is a postcode district in England, with 1,312 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in St Helens. It is split between 2 councils: St. Helens (1,310 postcodes) and Warrington (2).
- Postcodes in use
- 1,312
- Sectors
- 5
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- St Helens
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in WA9, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 37
- Some can get gigabit: 70
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,188
- Ofcom gives no figure: 17
Of the 1,312 postcodes in WA9 that ONS places, 37 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 70 have some that can, 1,188 can all get it and 17 have no Ofcom figure.
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.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4361, longitude -2.7194. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What broadband can you get in WA9?
Ofcom reports on 1,295 of the 1,312 postcodes in WA9. At 1,188 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is WA9 at risk of flooding?
42 of the 1,312 postcodes in WA9 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 102 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in WA9?
Homes in WA9 sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 506 sales, down 7.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £312,955 87 sales
- Semi-detached £190,000 217 sales
- Terraced £130,000 187 sales
- Flat or maisonette £87,500 15 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in WA9
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in WA9
Towns and villages with postcodes in WA9, and how many each has here.
Who covers WA9
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- St. Helens1,310
- Warrington2
Constituencies
- St Helens South and Whiston1,037
- St Helens North273
- Warrington North2
Police force areas
- Merseyside1,310
- Cheshire2
Next to WA9
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after WA9 in the WA area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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