Burtonwood

Burtonwood is covered by postcode district WA5. It is in the Warrington council area, England.

Typical price £195,000 Homes sold in Burtonwood, last 12 months. ▼ 2.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 86 of 92 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Burtonwood, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Burtonwood, by flood risk Of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood that ONS places, 92 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Burtonwood. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. WA5 4AG: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AJ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AL: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AN: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AR: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AS: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AT: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AU: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AW: not on the flood risk listWA5 4AX: not on the flood risk listWA5 4BD: not on the flood risk listWA5 4DH: not on the flood risk listWA5 4DJ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4DQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4EA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4ES: not on the flood risk listWA5 4EU: not on the flood risk listWA5 4EX: not on the flood risk listWA5 4EY: not on the flood risk listWA5 4EZ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HB: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HE: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HF: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HG: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HH: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HJ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HL: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HN: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HP: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HR: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HS: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HT: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HU: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HW: not on the flood risk listWA5 4HX: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JD: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JE: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JF: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JH: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JJ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JT: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JU: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JX: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JY: not on the flood risk listWA5 4JZ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LB: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LD: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LE: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LH: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LJ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LL: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LN: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LP: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LX: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LY: not on the flood risk listWA5 4LZ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NB: not on the flood risk listWA5 4ND: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NE: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NN: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NP: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NR: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NS: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NW: not on the flood risk listWA5 4NZ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PB: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PN: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PP: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PQ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PR: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PS: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PT: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PU: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PW: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PY: not on the flood risk listWA5 4PZ: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QA: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QB: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QD: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QE: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QF: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QG: not on the flood risk listWA5 4QQ: not on the flood risk list Burtonwood Map of every postcode in Burtonwood, by flood risk Of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood that ONS places, 92 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Burtonwood. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Burtonwood
  • 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: 92

Of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood that ONS places, 92 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4314, longitude -2.6552. 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 is it like to live in Burtonwood?

Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. At 86 of the 92 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 92 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Patterdale Lodge Med Ctre, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Earlestown, 2.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Burtonwood?

Homes in Burtonwood sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 2.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£195,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£200,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 2.5% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £333,000 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £205,000 15 sales
  • Terraced £154,500 12 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole WA5 district, Burtonwood's main postcode district: a typical £260,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Burtonwood: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Burtonwood?

3 of the 92 postcodes now in use in Burtonwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 48 homes sold in Burtonwood were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA5 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

WA5 4ALsince July 2022WA5 4AWsince June 2022WA5 4AJsince December 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BurtonwoodAcross the WA5 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 33 (0%) 13 of 684 (2%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 48 (0%) 63 of 914 (7%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Burtonwood?

Ofcom reports on 92 of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood. At 86 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit86 of 92
Postcodes where every home can get superfast91 of 92

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 checker

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

Is Burtonwood at risk of flooding?

None of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood 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

Which schools are in Burtonwood?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Burtonwood. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Burtonwood?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Burtonwood is Earlestown Rail Station, 2.5 km away in a straight line.

  • Earlestown Rail Station Railway station 2.5 kmCycle
  • St Helens Junction Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
  • Newton-le-Willows Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Burtonwood?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Burtonwood. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Burtonwood safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 179 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Burtonwood over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 24 September 2025
  2. 22 October 2025
  3. 16 November 2025
  4. 14 December 2025
  5. 9 January 2026
  6. 16 February 2026
  7. 8 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 12 June 2026
  11. 19 July 2026
  12. 13 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences77 reports
Vehicle crime18 reports
Shoplifting17 reports
Public order16 reports
Other theft16 reports
Anti-social behaviour10 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Burglary6 reports

Also: other crime 6, drugs 3, robbery 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Burtonwood?

Council
Warrington
Parliamentary constituency
Warrington North
Police force area
Cheshire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Charlotte Nichols (Labour)

All 92 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Burtonwood postcodes

92 postcodes in use in Burtonwood, by district:

WA5 postcode district,92 postcodes

That district is in the WA postcode area.

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Places near Burtonwood

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Burtonwood's £195,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Newton-le-Willows2.8 km, £215,500Winwick3.8 km, £345,000Haydock4.2 km, £172,500St Helens5.7 km, £171,500Warrington6.1 km, £245,000Ashton-in-Makerfield6.8 km, £200,000Croft6.9 km, £376,000Golborne7.0 km, £235,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Burtonwood

What is it like to live in Burtonwood?
Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. At 86 of the 92 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 92 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Patterdale Lodge Med Ctre, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Earlestown, 2.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Burtonwood?
Burtonwood is covered by postcode district WA5, across 92 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Burtonwood in?
Burtonwood is in the Warrington council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Burtonwood?
Burtonwood is in the Warrington North parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Charlotte Nichols (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Burtonwood?
Homes in Burtonwood sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Burtonwood?
In Burtonwood, primary schools at its postcodes include St Paul of the Cross Catholic Primary School and Burtonwood Community Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Wargrave House School, 2.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Burtonwood have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Burtonwood is Earlestown, 2.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Burtonwood?
Ofcom reports on 92 of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood. At 86 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Burtonwood at risk of flooding?
None of the 92 postcodes in Burtonwood 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Burtonwood?
3 of the 92 postcodes now in use in Burtonwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 48 homes sold in Burtonwood were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA5 district, 7%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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