Billinge Road St. Helens

66 addresses across 5 postcodes (WN4), about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 37500175.

  • Sales: 61 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £232,500 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: 31 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 9, D: 12, E: 4, F: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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: 4 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, Leyland Mill / Leyland Green, is 310 m away.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage, is 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Garswood, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Doorstep Greens, is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 76 to 102 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 51 of its 66 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Billinge Medical Practice, about 260 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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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£232,500£185,000£280,000
20253£228,000£136,000£270,000
20243£175,000£168,000£355,000
20222£305,000£280,000£330,000
20215£220,000£81,000£350,000
20204£151,500£85,000£191,000
20193£123,000£118,500£165,000
20182£267,475£179,950£355,000
20171£182,000£182,000£182,000
20163£118,000£100,000£143,000
20151£185,025£185,025£185,025
20142£130,000£125,000£135,000
All 61 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 202115 WN4 0REDetached£249,995Leasehold.
7 Apr 201715 WN4 0REDetached£182,000Leasehold.
4 Aug 200315 WN4 0REDetached£95,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 201617 WN4 0RESemi-detached£118,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 200117 WN4 0RESemi-detached£63,500Leasehold.
30 Oct 199718 WN4 0RESemi-detached£46,500
6 Sep 201919 WN4 0RESemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 200519 WN4 0RESemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 202522 WN4 0REOther£2,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 202522 WN4 0RESemi-detached£136,000Leasehold.
18 Apr 200022 WN4 0RESemi-detached£47,000Leasehold.
27 May 200424 WN4 0RESemi-detached£25,000
6 Mar 199825 WN4 0RETerraced£27,000Leasehold.
21 Apr 2017GARAGE, 25 WN4 0REOther£7,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Nov 202526 WN4 0RESemi-detached£228,000
20 Apr 202128 WN4 0RESemi-detached£81,000
30 Dec 200529 WN4 0RESemi-detached£149,000
30 Mar 200131 WN4 0RESemi-detached£79,950
11 Mar 202298 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£280,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 201198 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£110,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 2015100 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£185,025Leasehold.
17 Mar 1995100 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.
2 Sep 2021125 WN4 0XDTerraced£165,000
27 Sep 2013125 WN4 0XDTerraced£124,000
26 May 2009125 WN4 0XDTerraced£32,500
10 Oct 1997125 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£32,500
11 Dec 2019129 WN4 0XDTerraced£123,000
9 Aug 2007129 WN4 0XDTerraced£60,000
28 Oct 2005129 WN4 0XDTerraced£98,000
7 Jan 2014130 WN4 0XDTerraced£125,000
22 Feb 2024132 WN4 0XDTerraced£168,000
19 May 2006132 WN4 0XDTerraced£112,000
29 Jul 2011133 WN4 0XDTerraced£74,000
30 Aug 1996134 WN4 0XDTerraced£39,000
9 Feb 2024136 WN4 0XDTerraced£175,000
31 Jan 2020137 WN4 0XDTerraced£85,000Leasehold.
22 Jul 2016138 WN4 0XDTerraced£143,000
15 Sep 2014138 WN4 0XDTerraced£135,000
9 Dec 2002138 WN4 0XDTerraced£70,000
9 Dec 2011139 WN4 0XDTerraced£90,000
17 Apr 2026141 WN4 0XDTerraced£185,000
12 Jun 2020141 WN4 0XDTerraced£122,000
1 Jun 2005141 WN4 0XDTerraced£109,000
4 May 2001141 WN4 0XDTerraced£46,950
16 Mar 2018143 WN4 0XDDetached£355,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 2019144 WN4 0XDTerraced£118,500
25 Jan 2021148 WN4 0XDDetached£350,000
25 Sep 2024150 WN4 0XDDetached£355,000
24 Jan 2022150 WN4 0XDDetached£330,000
20 Feb 2026156 WN4 0XDTerraced£280,000
6 Jul 2020156 WN4 0XDTerraced£191,000
13 May 2016156 WN4 0XDTerraced£100,000
24 Nov 2020158 WN4 0XDTerraced£181,000
15 Jul 2011158 WN4 0XDTerraced£118,000
14 Oct 2005158 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£133,000
17 Jul 2002158 WN4 0XDSemi-detached£82,000
19 Dec 2025160 WN4 0XDTerraced£270,000
27 Aug 2021160 WN4 0XDTerraced£220,000
20 Dec 2018160 WN4 0XDTerraced£179,950
28 Oct 2005160 WN4 0XDTerraced£117,000
18 Oct 2018UNIT, GARSWOOD HEALTH CENTRE WN4 0XDOther£35,660Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (7); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1900-1929 (11); before 1900 (6); 1930-1949 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,457 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% more than the district's 10,882 kWh, and 3,387 kWh of electricity, 11% more than the district's 3,045 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WN4 0XD292,519 kWh 309,757 kWh
WN4 0RE192,108 kWh 189,761 kWh
WN4 0RB143,014 kWh 148,174 kWh
WN4 0QZ283,716 kWh 2812,509 kWh
WN4 0UF342,872 kWh 3511,843 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 WN4.

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 C (34% of about 1,850 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 3 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: yes, St. Helens.

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

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage Wigan A/23/96568/MAJOR Battery storage 70 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2025 1.6 km (1 mile)
Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Apr 1998 2.6 km (1.6 miles)
PROMISED LAND FARM St. Helens P/2013/0373 Wind 2 turbines 1 MW Operational Oct 2014 4.1 km (2.5 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 2 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 2 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 29 September 2026 to 1 October 2026: SP Electricity North West, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 10 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 12 August 2026: ST. HELENS COUNCIL, Section 50, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 9 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
WN4 0XDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WN4 0REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN4 0RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN4 0QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 5 unlikely
WN4 0UFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

4 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. 1 more is 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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is 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.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 310 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Leyland Mill / Leyland Green Leyland Mill Farm/House, Winstanely Road, Garswood, Near Ashton-in-Makerfield Not recorded Inert 310 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 66 addresses are between 76 m and 102 m above sea level (88 m on average); the ground rises about 26 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
WN4 0QZ100%100%100%0%
WN4 0RB100%100%100%0%
WN4 0RE100%100%100%0%
WN4 0UF100%100%100%0%
WN4 0XD97%97%97%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 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Bryn 105,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pemberton 49,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Garswood Road Simms Lane End180 m
Bus or coach stationEarlestown Bus Station5.3 km (3.3 miles)
EV charging pointsFastned Charging Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL21.2 km (13 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Billinge Medical Practice Good Dec 2024260 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Garswood Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentistsDownall Green Road (Dental Surgery)2 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalFairfield Hospital Good Jan 20175 km (3.1 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashton Cross Good Oct 20261.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationAshton in Makerfield Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Doorstep Greens 5,120 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha220 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,210 m²770 m (0.5 miles)

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

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Weathercock HillHill710 m (0.4 miles) west
Barton CloughValley930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
The CloughValley1 km (0.6 miles) east
Torpen WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Tithe Barn HillockHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Carr Mill DamLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) south-west

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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6980
60 to 64320
55 to 59110
Under 551566

51 of the street's 66 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
Garswood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Rectory CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 27% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 39% in 2023)
St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 82% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Bryn St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 65% 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

No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.

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
Simms Road Inn WN4 0XHPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Garswood United A.F.C WN4 0XHPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
The Turpin View WN4 0XJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026

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.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Garswood Road (5).

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.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202311
202421
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 May 2025 20:07 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
2 Dec 2024 08:27 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
25 Jul 2024 09:40 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A571, 30 mph Daylight
5 Sep 2023 18:10 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A571, 30 mph Daylight
5 Oct 2021 15:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

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 street's postcodes. 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.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,217 residents in 506 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 age4540
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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.

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.

  • WN4 0XD: 42 addresses of 48 in the postcode
  • WN4 0RE: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • WN4 0RB: 2 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • WN4 0QZ: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • WN4 0UF: 1 address of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Leyland Green Road · Smock Lane · Peebles Close · Winstanley Road

All the streets in WN4 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.