St. Helens property guide

One of the North West's most affordable town markets.

This guide brings together the latest property, schools and crime data for St. Helens, Merseyside. Figures cover the 12 months to the end of June 2026 and are sourced from HM Land Registry, Police.uk and the DfE schools register. Trains reach Liverpool Lime Street in about 20 minutes.

Median sale price (12m)

£160,000

Sales registered (12m)

947

Open schools

40

About St. Helens

St Helens trades mainly in Victorian terraces and interwar semis, with the strongest prices in Eccleston and Rainhill.

The town sits between Liverpool and Manchester with stations on the Chat Moss line, and its glassmaking heritage still shapes local employment.

House prices in St. Helens

The median sale price in St. Helens over the last 12 months was £160,000, across 947 recorded transactions. That is 4.5% lower than the previous 12 months.

Terraced homes were the most-traded type in St. Helens, accounting for 400 of the period's sales at a median of £116,000.

Median price by property type, last 12 months

Type	Median price	Sales
Detached	£307,750	120
Semi-detached	£187,000	360
Terraced	£116,000	400
Flat	£90,000	41
Other	£300,000	26

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Schools in St. Helens

St. Helens has 40 open schools recorded in the DfE register, including 30 primary, 5 secondary and 2 with a sixth form or 16-plus provision.

Nearest secondary schools to St. Helens centre

School	Postcode	Distance
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy	WA11 9BB	1.7 km
St Cuthbert's Catholic High School	WA9 3HE	2.4 km
De La Salle School	WA10 4QH	2.5 km
The Sutton Academy	WA9 5AU	3.1 km
Outwood Academy Haydock	WA11 0JG	3.8 km

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Crime in St. Helens

In St. Helens, the largest reported categories over the last 12 months were violence and sexual offences (37.6%), public order (11.1%) and anti-social behaviour (9.5%).

Largest reported categories, last 12 months

Category	Share
Violence and sexual offences	37.6%
Public order	11.1%
Anti-social behaviour	9.5%
Criminal damage and arson	9.4%
Drugs	8.6%

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Postcode districts in St. Helens

Reported incident counts vary across postcode districts within the St. Helens boundary, partly reflecting where Police.uk anonymises locations and partly reflecting genuine differences in foot traffic and population density.

Postcode district	Reports (12m)
WA10	10,625
WA11	10,625
WA9	10,625
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Living near St. Helens

Nearby towns include Liverpool, Wirral, Southport, Wallasey and Birkenhead.

Liverpool
Wirral
Southport
Wallasey
Birkenhead

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Frequently asked questions about St. Helens

The median sale price in St. Helens over the last 12 months was £160,000, based on HM Land Registry data.

There are 40 open schools listed in the DfE register within the St. Helens area, covering primary, secondary and sixth-form provision.

According to Police.uk, the most-reported category in St. Helens over the last 12 months was violence and sexual offences, out of around 10,625 recorded incidents.

Sale prices come from HM Land Registry, crime statistics from the Police.uk open-data feed, schools data from the Department for Education, flood data from the Environment Agency, and energy ratings from the EPC public register.

The figures refresh monthly as new data is published by each source.

More St. Helens property data

St. Helens sold prices

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Crime in St. Helens

By category and postcode district

Schools in St. Helens

Primary, secondary and sixth-form

Planning applications near St. Helens

Extensions, new homes and commercial schemes shape an area's prices before they reach the sold data. PlanIndex indexes applications from St. Helens, with decisions and approval rates.

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