# WA12 2: postcode sector in St. Helens

7 live postcodes, all in St. Helens.

A postcode has no figures of its own: each layer is published for whole councils, neighbourhoods or exact points. The figures below are for the whole of St. Helens. Open the map at WA12 2 for neighbourhoods and points.

In: [St. Helens](https://openindex.co.uk/st-helens) › [WA12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12)

## Key figures

- **Average house price: £186,445** (August 2026). St. Helens’s average house price was £186,445 in August 2026 (HM Land Registry). Up 5.1% in a year. Source: UK House Price Index, August 2026. Published 21 October 2026.
- **Median full-time pay: £37,306** (2025). Full-time workers living in St. Helens earned a median of £37,306 in 2025 (ONS earnings survey). 136th lowest paid of 348. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025. Published 23 October 2025.
- **House price to pay: 5.0×** (2025). A home in St. Helens costs 5.0 times local full-time pay. Joint 43rd most affordable of 348. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UK House Price Index and the ONS earnings survey. Published 21 October 2026.
- **Deprivation score: 29.0** (2025). St. Helens has a deprivation score of 29.0 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG). 46th most deprived of 296. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, 2025. Published 30 October 2025.

## About

- Type: Postcode sector
- Live postcodes: 7
- Council: [St. Helens](https://openindex.co.uk/st-helens)
- Centre: 53.4527, -2.6397

Council: [St. Helens](https://openindex.co.uk/st-helens) (Metropolitan borough, 100%).

## Your MP

- [St Helens North](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/st-helens-north): David Baines (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Postcodes in WA12 2

[WA12 2AE](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2ae), [WA12 2DD](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2dd), [WA12 2DG](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2dg), [WA12 2EA](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2ea), [WA12 2EJ](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2ej), [WA12 2EL](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2el), [WA12 2EN](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2en)

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa12-2