St Helens
St Helens is covered by postcode districts L34, WA5, WA9, WA10 and WA11. It is mostly in the St. Helens council area: 2,855 of its 2,856 postcodes. The other is in Warrington.
ONS publishes this built-up area as St Helens (St. Helens).
Every postcode in St Helens, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 28
- At medium risk at worst: 6
- At low risk at worst: 59
- At very low risk only: 3
- Not on the at-risk list: 2,760
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 2,856 postcodes in St Helens that ONS places, 28 have a home or business at high risk, 6 are at medium risk at worst, 59 are at low risk at worst, 3 are at very low risk only and 2,760 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 53.4481, longitude -2.7359. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.
The postcodes at high risk
28 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. WA10 4RA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. WA9 3ST, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. WA10 4RL, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. WA9 4AJ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in St Helens?
Homes sold for a typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,597 of the 2,768 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 247 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 96 of its 2,856 postcodes. It has 30 primary schools and 5 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is St Helens Central, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in St Helens?
Homes in St Helens sold for a typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,053 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £171,000 from 1,327 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £322,500 160 sales
- Semi-detached £193,000 442 sales
- Terraced £130,000 406 sales
- Flat or maisonette £100,000 45 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WA9 district, St Helens's main postcode district: a typical £175,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in St Helens: 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.
Are new homes being built in St Helens?
94 of the 2,856 postcodes now in use in St Helens came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 76 of the 1,327 homes sold in St Helens were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA9 district, 23%.
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 St Helens | Across the WA9 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 9 of 1,053 (Under 1%) | 36 of 506 (7%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 76 of 1,327 (6%) | 176 of 773 (23%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in St Helens?
Ofcom reports on 2,768 of the 2,856 postcodes in St Helens. At 2,597 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 St Helens at risk of flooding?
96 of the 2,856 postcodes in St Helens 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 247 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.
Which schools are in St Helens?
The open schools at the postcodes in St Helens (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School900 m 197 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School1.0 km 230 pupils, 210 places
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens1.0 km 229 pupils, 207 places
- Allanson Street Primary School1.5 km 454 pupils, 480 places
- Merton Bank Primary School1.6 km 193 pupils, 236 places
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street1.6 km 151 pupils, 210 places
- Robins Lane Community Primary School1.6 km 248 pupils, 248 places
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School1.6 km 375 pupils, 420 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from St Helens?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in St Helens is St Helens Central Rail Station, 650 m away in a straight line.
- St Helens Central Rail Station Railway station 650 mWalk
- Thatto Heath Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
- Lea Green Rail Station Railway station 2.5 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in St Helens?
The GP practices at the postcodes in St Helens, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Hall Street Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2023 · Phone 01744 733113 550 mWalk
- Mill Street Medical Ctr. Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01744 624810 1.0 kmWalk
- Atlas Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01744 752521 1.0 kmWalk
- Central Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01744 627660 1.1 kmWalk
- Newholme Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01744 621730 1.1 kmWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is St Helens safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,717 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in St Helens 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
- 532 September 2025
- 487 October 2025
- 493 November 2025
- 409 December 2025
- 429 January 2026
- 401 February 2026
- 512 March 2026
- 435 April 2026
- 437 May 2026
- 522 June 2026
- 506 July 2026
- 554 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 141, burglary 119, robbery 54, possession of weapons 50, theft from the person 40, bicycle theft 40.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs St Helens?
- Councils
- St. Helens (2,855) and Warrington (1)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- St Helens South and Whiston (1,937), St Helens North (918) and Warrington North (1)
- Police force areas
- Merseyside (2,855) and Cheshire (1)
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to St Helens
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of St Helens is in St. Helens; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- 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 St Helens
- 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
St Helens postcodes
2,856 postcodes in use in St Helens, by district:
Those districts are in the WA postcode area and L postcode area.
Check a St Helens postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near St Helens
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside St Helens's £172,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about St Helens
- What is the postcode for St Helens?
- Postcode districts L34, WA5, WA9, WA10 and WA11, with 2,856 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in St Helens?
- A typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 1,053 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in St Helens?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School and Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens; secondary schools at its postcodes include Cowley International College, St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy and De La Salle School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does St Helens have a railway station?
- Yes: St Helens Central station, 650 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in St Helens?
- Ofcom reports on 2,768 of the 2,856 postcodes in St Helens. At 2,597 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is St Helens at risk of flooding?
- 96 of the 2,856 postcodes in St Helens 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 247 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in St Helens?
- 94 of the 2,856 postcodes now in use in St Helens came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 76 of the 1,327 homes sold in St Helens were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WA9 district, 23%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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