Avondale Road Haydock, St. Helens

62 addresses across 5 postcodes (WA11), about 550 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 37500104.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £227,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in St. Helens cost £186,445 in August 2026 (+5.1% on a year); private rents averaged £811 a month.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 16, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 3 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Clipsley Lane, is 360 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 5 times (34 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Sutton Heath Road, is 5 km (3.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A580, carries 27,399 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Garswood, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sankey Valley Park, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 40 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 62 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Modality St Helens, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£227,500£210,000£245,000
20246£215,000£170,000£253,000
20231£180,000£180,000£180,000
20224£176,750£160,000£216,000
20212£161,000£122,000£200,000
20201£118,500£118,500£118,500
20192£124,975£119,950£130,000
20182£125,250£113,000£137,500
20171£120,500£120,500£120,500
20161£115,000£115,000£115,000
20151£137,500£137,500£137,500
20142£175,498£129,000£221,995
All 54 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Feb 20142 WA11 0HJDetached£221,995New build. Leasehold.
28 May 20216 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 199710 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£54,500Leasehold.
16 Sep 201412 WA11 0HJDetached£129,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 202216 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
23 Feb 199616 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£48,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202617 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£210,000
30 May 202417 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£205,000
20 Mar 202017 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£118,500
23 Aug 201718 WA11 0HJOther£350Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 199918 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£45,000Leasehold.
3 Feb 201220 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£156,500Leasehold.
14 Feb 200720 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£127,500Leasehold.
18 Oct 200220 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 199620 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.
1 Mar 201923 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£130,000
9 Oct 201526 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£137,500Leasehold.
3 Jul 200826 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£157,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 200626 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£149,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 202428 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£170,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 202432 WA11 0HJDetached£226,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 201832 WA11 0HJDetached£137,500Leasehold.
15 Oct 201234 WA11 0HJDetached£145,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 202435 WA11 0HJDetached£253,000Leasehold.
8 Mar 201135 WA11 0HJDetached£119,200Leasehold.
21 Oct 202237 WA11 0HJDetached£163,500
2 Jul 202438 WA11 0HJDetached£195,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 200438 WA11 0HJDetached£118,500Leasehold.
26 Jul 200238 WA11 0HJDetached£79,950Leasehold.
26 Jul 201740 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£120,500Leasehold.
11 Aug 200040 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£16,000Leasehold.
11 Jun 202142 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£122,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 202042 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Aug 201743 WA11 0HJOther£300Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 201844 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£113,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 200145 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£64,995Leasehold.
3 Sep 199946 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£49,000Leasehold.
5 Oct 200148 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£57,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 202349 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
15 Jul 200550 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£127,500Leasehold.
9 Oct 201951 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£119,950Leasehold.
17 Apr 202652 WA11 0HJDetached£245,000Leasehold.
17 Jul 200956 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£148,334Leasehold.
4 Feb 200556 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£133,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200256 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£68,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 199758 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£55,950Leasehold.
11 May 202259 WA11 0HJDetached£216,000Leasehold.
13 Jan 199559 WA11 0HJDetached£59,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 202460 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 201660 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 200461 WA11 0HJDetached£125,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 200362 WA11 0HJSemi-detached£85,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 202264 WA11 0HQSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 200166 WA11 0HQSemi-detached£59,950Leasehold.

House prices and rents in St. Helens

A typical home in St. Helens cost £186,445 in August 2026, 5.1% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier and 65% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£305,687
Semi-detached£201,418
Terraced£155,878
Flat or maisonette£98,994
Bought by a first-time buyer£169,943

Private renters in St. Helens paid £811 a month on average in September 2026, 6.9% more than a year before. That is 44% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£596
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£907
Four or more bedrooms£1,307

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, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (11); House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (16); 1950-1966 (9); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,045 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% more than the district's 10,476 kWh, and 3,121 kWh of electricity, 7% more than the district's 2,918 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WA11 0HJ551,766 kWh 5610,451 kWh
WA11 0FA733,011 kWh 7210,156 kWh
WA11 0SD373,491 kWh 3912,540 kWh
WA11 0WN82,262 kWh 88,283 kWh

These are all the homes on each 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 WA11.

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.

Council tax

What each band costs in St. Helens in 2026-27: Band D £2,403 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,602£1,869£2,136£2,403£2,937£3,472£4,006£4,807

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (32% of about 1,220 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Apr 1998 4.9 km (3 miles)
Sutton Heath Road St. Helens P/2016/0804/FUL Energy from waste (incinerator) 15 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2017 5 km (3.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 6 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WA11 0HJnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 5 unlikely
WA11 0HQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
WA11 0FAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA11 0SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA11 0WNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 5 times, for 34 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Clipsley Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Vicarage Road United Utilities Clipsley Brook 5 34 700 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

3 of the street's 5 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 2 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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 highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: 1 to 3% (5); 10 to 30% (1).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 360 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Clipsley Lane Clipsley Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside Not recorded Not recorded 360 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 street's 62 addresses are between 40 m and 45 m above sea level (41 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WA11 0FA100%100%100%0%
WA11 0HJ100%100%100%0%
WA11 0HQ100%100%100%0%
WA11 0SD100%100%100%0%
WA11 0WN100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsGarswood 136,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Earlestown 331,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
St Helens Central 669,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gardiner Avenue Blackbrook260 m
Bus or coach stationEarlestown Bus Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station890 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL18.8 km (12 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Modality St Helens Good Sep 20231.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Taylor's Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalNewton Community Hospital3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colliers Croft Care Home Good May 2026280 m
Police stationNewton-le-Willows Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM910 m (0.6 miles)

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 middle of the street 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 gardenSankey Valley Park 56 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Field 6.3 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsHavannah Lane Allotments 9,970 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stanley Bank WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Icehouse PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Rough Hey WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Tithe Barn HillockHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Carr Mill DamLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
The CloughValley3 km (1.9 miles) north

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 middle of the street. 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)10.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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

Road and rail 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 trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 555762

5 of the street's 62 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 St. Helens: see them on the St. Helens page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Outwood Academy HaydockSecondary11–16310 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.9 (41.2 in 2025 and 41.2 in 2024); 43.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Legh Vale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Grange Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1 km (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Explorers: Garswood WA11 9RZ Full day care 41 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Small Wonders WA11 0JU Full day care 127 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Love Learning Childcare Ltd WA11 0NJ Full day care 48 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 40 childminders and 4 home childcarers (nannies) in St Helens. 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 middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Blossoms Deli WA11 0JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
Go Local Extra (tsp sai stores) WA11 0JGRetailers - other280 m4 Good5 May 2026
Colliers Croft Care Home WA11 0JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Bosh Bosh WA11 0JGRetailers - other290 m5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Chesworth Butchers WA11 0HXRetailers - other340 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Sams Wines WA11 0HXRetailers - other350 m4 Good9 Jan 2026
Best One WA11 0SJRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory18 Mar 2025
CHIP PAN WA11 0JLTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jan 2026
Acorn to Oaks WA11 0GXOther catering premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jan 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Other theft4
Shoplifting2
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Squires Close (5); On or near Darent Road (4); On or near Gardiner Avenue (4); On or near Acton Close (3); On or near Kennet Road (3).

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 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 Feb 2024 07:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A599, 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A580 between A58 and Haydock Lane, with 27,399 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 380 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A580 A58 to Haydock Lane 27,399 estimated; counted 2023 5% -13% since 2015 380 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,024 residents in 423 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 streetEngland
Median age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 9 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.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Teesdale Road · Wyedale Road · Avery Crescent · Darent Road · Kennet Road · Tamar Road · Avery Road · Avery Square · Dovecote Drive · Gardiner Avenue · Brookside View · Avondale Gardens

All the streets in WA11 and across St. Helens.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.