Groarke Drive Warrington

15 addresses across 1 postcode (WA5), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42200436.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Warrington cost £259,224 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £903 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Warrington costs £2,448 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sankey For Penketh, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Penketh Health Centre, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 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, and it was 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
20231£215,000£215,000£215,000
20202£183,750£182,500£185,000
20171£184,950£184,950£184,950
20161£120,000£120,000£120,000
20151£160,000£160,000£160,000
20092£142,000£142,000£142,000
20071£162,000£162,000£162,000
20061£163,000£163,000£163,000
20052£129,900£129,900£129,900
20041£141,500£141,500£141,500
19991£65,000£65,000£65,000
All 15 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Aug 20241 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£178,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Oct 20231A WA5 2RGSemi-detached£215,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 20061A WA5 2RGSemi-detached£163,000Leasehold.
19 Feb 20162 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
4 Dec 20153 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 20176 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£184,950Leasehold.
1 Aug 20057 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£129,900Leasehold.
1 Aug 20057 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£129,900
9 Oct 20098 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£142,000
9 Oct 20098 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£142,000Leasehold.
30 Jan 20209 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£182,500
27 Apr 19999 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£65,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 200411 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£141,500Leasehold.
31 Jul 202012 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 200712 WA5 2RGSemi-detached£162,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Warrington

A typical home in Warrington cost £259,224 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 56% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£443,902
Semi-detached£269,053
Terraced£207,583
Flat or maisonette£135,874
Bought by a first-time buyer£215,884

Private renters in Warrington paid £903 a month on average in September 2026, 5.3% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£676
Two bedrooms£839
Three bedrooms£1,022
Four or more bedrooms£1,462

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (7); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (8); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,416 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% more than the district's 10,320 kWh, and 2,293 kWh of electricity, 25% less than the district's 3,064 kWh. There are gas meters for about 93% 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 WA5.

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 Warrington in 2026-27: Band D £2,448 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,632£1,904£2,176£2,448£2,992£3,535£4,079£4,895

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 680 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Arpley Landfill Scheme 'A' Landfill Gas 7.9 MW Operational Dec 1999 2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Arpley Landfill Scheme 'B' Landfill Gas 7.9 MW Operational Dec 1999 2.3 km (1.4 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 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

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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 with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: 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 the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

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. 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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 addresses are about 16 m above sea level.

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
WA5 2RG100%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 stationsSankey For Penketh 1,200 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Warrington West 389,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Warrington Bank Quay 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coniston Avenue Doe Green70 m
Bus or coach stationWarrington Bus Interchange Stand U4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksCo-Op Hawthorne Avenue Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL13.8 km (8.6 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 Penketh Health Centre Good Nov 2019510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Penketh Pharmacy510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lingley Road (Dental Surgery)790 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWarrington Hospital Good Jan 20243.5 km (2.2 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Green Park Care Home Requires improvement Feb 2026430 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Penketh Police Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stanley Wines, Great Sankey640 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,140 m²280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2,190 m²740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²290 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha320 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,860 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Barrow Old Hall moated site, Great Sankey, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barrow Old Hall moated site, Great SankeyScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite 380m east of South Lane FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lingley Mere PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Fiddler's Ferry ReachTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
South Park PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Penketh BankWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Finch's PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Penketh ReachTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) south-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 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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
60 to 6410
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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 Warrington: see them on the Warrington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 7 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
Penketh Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11380 m No published inspection 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Park Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Penketh High SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.7 (46.5 in 2025 and 45.5 in 2024); 48.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Penketh South Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Great Sankey Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 22% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Great Sankey High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.9 (50.5 in 2025 and 49.2 in 2024); 49.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 29% AAB or better; progress above average
Barrow Hall Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 82% in 2023)
Chapelford Village Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 85% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 28% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 86% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 840 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 150 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Green Park Day Nursery WA5 2RW Full day care 96 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 150 m
Kids Planet Penketh OOSC WA5 2QY Out-of-school day care 26 Not inspected yet 180 m
Kool Kids out of School Ltd WA5 2AU Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 340 m
Kids Planet Penketh WA5 2QS Full day care 56 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)
Kumon Warrington Great Sankey Study Centre WA5 3LX Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 530 m (0.3 miles)
Park Road Wasps WA5 3NY Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
Cromdale Way Pre-school WA5 3NY Sessional day care 26 Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
Cookies Link Club WA5 3NR Out-of-school day care 32 Not inspected yet 680 m (0.4 miles)
Chapel Road Little Explorers Limited WA5 2NB Full day care 61 Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
3Rs Tuition (Sankey) WA5 3HG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 840 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 89 childminders and 8 home childcarers (nannies) in Warrington. 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 7 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
Penketh Primary Academy WA5 2QYSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School WA5 2AYSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
The Mews WA5 2EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Aug 2026
The Oaks Centre WA5 2QSOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Kids Planet Penketh WA5 2QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 2025
The Cottage Express WA5 2EYTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
The Artful Potter WA5 2EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Aug 2025
Penketh Youth Centre WA5 2EYOther catering premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Norton Avenue (6); On or near Susan Drive (2); On or near Stocks Lane (1); On or near Denise Avenue (1); On or near St Joseph'S Close (1).

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, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 100% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Sep 2023 21:02 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 265 residents in 124 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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

Kenyon Avenue · Susan Drive · Denise Avenue · Meeting Lane · Norton Avenue · Stocks Lane · Walton Avenue · Coniston Avenue · Hadleigh Close · St Joseph's Close · Babbacombe Road · Southwold Crescent

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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.