WA14 3JL Trafford

Live postcode, introduced June 1999. Ward: Bowdon. Region: North West.

Streets

House prices and rents in Trafford

A typical home in Trafford cost £393,897 in August 2026, 6.4% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 58% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£789,690
Semi-detached£445,604
Terraced£345,691
Flat or maisonette£216,397
Bought by a first-time buyer£317,404

Private renters in Trafford paid £1,373 a month on average in September 2026, 3% more than a year before. That is 44% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£946
Two bedrooms£1,205
Three bedrooms£1,488
Four or more bedrooms£2,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Trafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,292 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,528£1,782£2,037£2,292£2,801£3,310£3,820£4,583

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band G (32% of about 630 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, The Devisdale (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the postcode, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,025 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% less than the district's 14,724 kWh, and 5,566 kWh of electricity, 35% more than the district's 4,135 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WA14.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 28 addresses are between 40 m and 49 m above sea level (45 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 46%, gigabit 46% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsHale (Manchester) 131,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Altrincham 316,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Navigation Road 96,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barry Rise Bowdon90 m
Bus or coach stationAltrincham Interchange2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksPurple Parking2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN7.2 km (4.5 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesAltrincham Medical Practice Good Dec 20221.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Beauty - Kissdental Holdings1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalAltrincham Hospital Good Mar 20191.7 km (1 mile)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bickham House Good Aug 2019320 m
Police stationCheshire Police - Altrincham Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Vicarage Lane, Vicarage Lane Cashzone1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 830 m (0.5 miles) from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kumon Altrincham WA14 2TR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 830 m (0.5 miles)
Kids Collective @ Bollin WA14 3AH Out-of-school day care 80 Not inspected yet 890 m (0.6 miles)
Trafford Tuition at Oldfield Brow Primary School WA14 4LE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Kids Collective @ Bowdon WA14 3EX Out-of-school day care 80 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Trafford Tuition at Bowdon Church School WA14 3EX Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bowdon Nursery School WA14 3EX Full day care 30 Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 121 childminders and 19 home childcarers (nannies) in Trafford. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Denzell Gardens 3.6 ha360 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,940 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.2 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsVicarage Lane Allotments 1.0 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Denzell House, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Denzell HouseListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) east
Dunham MasseyRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Watch Hill motte and bailey castle, 450m south of Streethead FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Stamford Park, AltrinchamRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Pitstead CovertWood430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Headsman's CovertWood720 m (0.4 miles) west
Watch HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Smithy PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Gale BogWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Woodheys CloughValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
65 to 69200
60 to 642100
55 to 59200
Under 5522828

26 of the postcode's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 5 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist. 17% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202220
202300
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Oct 2024 23:00 Slight 2 people A56, 40 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Apr 2024 19:20 Slight 5 people B5160, 40 mph Daylight
7 Nov 2022 08:10 Slight 1 person B5160, 30 mph Daylight
8 Apr 2022 16:30 Slight 1 person A56, 30 mph Daylight
23 Aug 2021 16:50 Slight 1 person A56, 70 mph Daylight
18 Aug 2021 10:34 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A56, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Trafford: see them on the Trafford page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 285 residents in 106 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4740
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)55%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Stanhope Road.