Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
Terraced median sale price
£122,500
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Town guide · Town · England
Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Runcorn. This local area guide brings together 650 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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£95 below Average across published towns and cities in England
1,311.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£126,303 below Average across published towns and cities in England
33.9 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£63 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£190 below Average across published towns and cities in England
2.2 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
£127,968 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£112,078 below Average across published towns and cities in England
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Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£122,500
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Crime & emergency services · Lower than most
24.77 per 1,000 residents per year
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
People & households · Lower than most
11.7%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
33.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
93.4%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
61.8%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
4.3%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
1.8%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
2.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
Income, work & local economy · Lower than most
0.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Claimant Count via Nomis · 2026-07
Local energy · Higher than most
1
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
175.4 MW
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
418.92 MW
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Nature & green space · Higher than most
77.0 ha
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Open Greenspace · 2026-04
Health & care · Higher than most
26.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
34.3%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Transport & getting around · Lower than most
100 m
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Road traffic statistics · 2025
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
70
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
42
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
440
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
98
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Runcorn, not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
Cheshire West and Chester · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: sulphur dioxide.
An area encompassing the entire village of Thornton le Moors, its surroundings and parts of the adjacent area of Stanlow.
Official UK-AIR designation recordCheshire West and Chester · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council (Chester City Centre) Air Quality Management Area 2017 (No.5). Declared 23/05/2017. Incorporating the entire area within the inner ring road and the adjoining sections of Liverpool Road, Parkgate Road, Hoole Way,
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Named records from the publisher’s mapped dataset intersecting the official Runcorn settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are named records in the publisher’s mapped 2021 Nitrate Vulnerable Zones dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s current official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This does not mean the whole town or any property is in a zone. NVZ rules concern agricultural land management, not household restrictions or a measurement of nitrate or drinking-water safety. Absence of a listed record is not evidence of clean water. Historical/type and status labels are reproduced without interpreting their current legal force. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Dataset reference period: 2021. Imported 19 October 2026.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Runcorn settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Runcorn; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
650 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.