Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A city of 174,968 in Cheshire, North West.
Warrington grades B overall against UK towns: better than 59% of UK towns, and #29 of 46 in Cheshire. Its strongest subject is schools (A−): primary results beat 84% of towns in England; secondary results beat 70% of towns in England. Its weakest is hazard risk (C−): 3.2% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The median home sold for £242,000 in the last three years, 4.7 times what households in the Warrington council area earn in a year.
The 2 things Warrington does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Warrington is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic England lists 221 buildings inside Warrington’s built-up area, 4 of them Grade I, and 3 scheduled monuments.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 2 old photos and postcards going back to 1880.
Explore the history →Warrington Township, Pennsylvania, is named after Warrington.
USUS editionWarrington Township, Pennsylvania, takes its name from this city.
Named after: each U.S. town’s Wikipedia article. Grades compare each town with towns in its own country, so they aren’t a head-to-head.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Warrington. Best known first.
MuseumWarrington Museum & Art Galleryin town
Abbey or prioryNorton Priory4.1 km outside town, to the southwest
Theme parkGulliver's World100 m outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumMuseum Of Policing In Cheshirein townMuseumMuseumRAF Burtonwood Heritage Centrein townMuseumMuseumWarrington Museum Of Freemasonryin townPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Warrington.
Key Stage 2 results at the town’s 52 primary schools: 69% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Bruche Academy’s results beat nearly every one of schools in England like it. Some 24,270 pupils attend Warrington’s 54 primaries and ten secondaries. Three of its 71 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakwood Avenue Community Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 667 | C |
| Great Sankey High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 2,051 | B+ |
| Bruche AcademyTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 243 | A+ |
The owner-occupied share of households is 66%. Private rents average £899 a month across the Warrington council area. 16% of households rent privately.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £400,000 | 1,473 |
| Semi-detached | £248,000 | 2,660 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 1,677 |
| Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | 595 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
23 GP practices serve the town; nearly three quarters of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. The nearest A&E to Warrington is Warrington Hospital, 0.9 miles away. 83% of the town’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, close to both Cheshire’s towns (82%) and England’s towns (82%).
| Census 2021 | Warrington | Cheshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 82% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.2% | 5.4% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 18% | 18% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · The census answers take no account of age, so a young town looks healthier; the Health Grade relies on age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
Town centres with shops, stations and nightlife record more crime per resident: police.uk counts crimes where they happen, not where victims live.
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 51% of recorded crime. The 12 months to August 2026 brought 12,813 recorded crimes inside Warrington’s built-up area, and 1,155 reports of anti-social behaviour. Homes saw 10.1 burglaries and acts of damage per 1,000 residents a year, above both Cheshire’s towns (5.7) and England’s towns (9.4). Among the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, Warrington has less crime per resident than four fifths of them.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 30% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For just over half of commuters, work was under 5 km away. 56% of commuters who live in Warrington also work there. The car took 80% of commuters, about level with Cheshire’s towns (80%) and above England’s towns (70%). Households take home £50K a year before tax, on average.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Grade II* covers 10 of them, Grade I 4. Warrington’s listed buildings include the Church of St Wilfrid, Grade I. Conservation areas cover 2% of the town’s land, below both Cheshire’s towns (100%) and England’s towns (7%).
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Graduates make up 31% of adults. Residents of Warrington have a median age of 41.6. People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Warrington | Cheshire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 25% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 25% |
| 65+ | 18% | 21% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.1% | 5.7% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 31% | 34% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Cheshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
221 listed buildings in Warrington, 4 of them Grade I.
Town Hall: Photo: Racklever at en · Public domain · Church of St Wilfrid: Photo: Peter I. Vardy · Public domain · Bewsey Old Hall: Photo: Sue Adair · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct): Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent · CC BY 3.0
254 notable people were born in Warrington.
Tim Curry: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0 · Jesse Lingard: Explicit, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pete Postlethwaite: Dave Morris from Edinburgh, UK, CC BY 2.0 · Jarell Quansah: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · James Chester: Steindy 16:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0 · David Brooks: AFC Bournemouth, CC BY 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrington | 174,968 | — | B | A− | C− | C− |
| Winwick | 2,062 | 2.4 | — | C+ | D− | C− |
| Croft | 1,520 | 3.1 | — | C+ | A | A− |
| Burtonwood | 3,504 | 3.7 | B+ | A | B+ | D |
| Appleton Thorn | 1,372 | 3.7 | — | C | A− | A |
| Newton-le-Willows | 24,651 | 4.4 | D | C | C− | D |
| Lymm | 11,547 | 4.8 | A | C+ | A− | A− |
| Culcheth | 6,722 | 5 | B+ | C+ | A− | B |
Winwick, Croft and Appleton Thorn have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Its Grade I buildings include Church of St Wilfrid. It also has 3 scheduled monuments.
Secondary results beat 70%.
Against all UK towns, most of them far smaller, it grades C−.
City in Cheshire, England
Warrington is a built-up area of 174,968 people, in the Warrington council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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