Newton-le-Willows
Newton-le-Willows is covered by postcode districts WA3 and WA12. It is in the St. Helens council area, England.
Every postcode in Newton-le-Willows, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 2
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 0
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 611
Of the 615 postcodes in Newton-le-Willows that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 611 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 53.4531, longitude -2.6337. 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
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Newton-le-Willows?
Homes sold for a typical £215,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. At 551 of the 603 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 8 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 615 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Earlestown, 350 metres 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 Newton-le-Willows?
Homes in Newton-le-Willows sold for a typical £215,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 266 sales, up 0.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £347,000 53 sales
- Semi-detached £220,500 104 sales
- Terraced £172,500 97 sales
- Flat or maisonette £120,000 12 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WA12 district, Newton-le-Willows's main postcode district: a typical £216,750.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newton-le-Willows: 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 Newton-le-Willows?
13 of the 615 postcodes now in use in Newton-le-Willows came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 353 homes sold in Newton-le-Willows were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA12 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Newton-le-Willows | Across the WA12 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 266 (0%) | 0 of 268 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 1 of 353 (Under 1%) | 1 of 357 (Under 1%) |
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 Newton-le-Willows?
Ofcom reports on 603 of the 615 postcodes in Newton-le-Willows. At 551 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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Newton-le-Willows at risk of flooding?
4 of the 615 postcodes in Newton-le-Willows 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 8 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, 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 Newton-le-Willows?
The open schools at the postcodes in Newton-le-Willows (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy200 m 173 pupils, 232 places
- St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy300 m 219 pupils, 240 places
- The District CofE Primary School450 m 365 pupils, 475 places
- Newton-le-Willows Primary School500 m 563 pupils, 637 places
- Wargrave CofE Primary School850 m 424 pupils, 420 places
- Wargrave House School1.0 km 74 pupils, 90 places
- St Peter's CofE Primary School1.1 km 226 pupils, 237 places
- Lyme Community Primary School1.4 km 218 pupils, 245 places
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 Newton-le-Willows?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newton-le-Willows is Earlestown Rail Station, 350 m away in a straight line.
- Earlestown Rail Station Railway station 350 mWalk
- Newton-le-Willows Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
- Garswood Rail Station Railway station 4.7 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 Newton-le-Willows?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Newton-le-Willows. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Newton Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01744 624885 550 mWalk
- Patterdale Lodge Med Ctre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01925 227111 700 mWalk
- Vista Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01925 221457 950 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Newton-le-Willows safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,049 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Newton-le-Willows 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
- 189 September 2025
- 184 October 2025
- 145 November 2025
- 155 December 2025
- 141 January 2026
- 137 February 2026
- 177 March 2026
- 193 April 2026
- 166 May 2026
- 183 June 2026
- 201 July 2026
- 178 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 54, burglary 48, possession of weapons 21, bicycle theft 7, robbery 7, theft from the person 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 postcodeSource: 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 Newton-le-Willows?
- Council
- St. Helens
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Helens North
- Police force area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- David Baines (Labour)
All 615 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
Moving to Newton-le-Willows
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell St. Helens about council tax Council tax, on sthelens.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Newton-le-Willows
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Newton-le-Willows postcodes
615 postcodes in use in Newton-le-Willows, by district:
Those districts are all in the WA postcode area.
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Places near Newton-le-Willows
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Newton-le-Willows's £215,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Newton-le-Willows
- What is it like to live in Newton-le-Willows?
- Homes sold for a typical £215,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. At 551 of the 603 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 8 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 615 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Earlestown, 350 metres 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 Newton-le-Willows?
- Newton-le-Willows is covered by postcode districts WA3 and WA12, across 615 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Newton-le-Willows in?
- Newton-le-Willows is in the St. Helens council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Newton-le-Willows?
- Newton-le-Willows is in the St Helens North parliamentary constituency. Its MP is David Baines (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Newton-le-Willows?
- Homes in Newton-le-Willows sold for a typical £215,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 266 sales, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Newton-le-Willows?
- In Newton-le-Willows, primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy, St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy and The District CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Wargrave House School and Hope Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Newton-le-Willows have a railway station?
- Yes: Earlestown is 350 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Newton-le-Willows, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Newton-le-Willows?
- Ofcom reports on 603 of the 615 postcodes in Newton-le-Willows. At 551 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Newton-le-Willows at risk of flooding?
- 4 of the 615 postcodes in Newton-le-Willows 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 8 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Newton-le-Willows?
- 13 of the 615 postcodes now in use in Newton-le-Willows came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 353 homes sold in Newton-le-Willows were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA12 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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