House prices in 'WA9 4', Clock Face

Price per square metre data and charts revealed. Latest statistics for the housing market in 'WA9 4' (Clock Face, St Helens) - calculated on 01 December 2025.

Defining 'WA9 4'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "WA9 4", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it WA9 4, Clock Face. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in WA9 4 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in October 2025, 32, Axbridge Avenue, Clock Face, WA9 4NT sold for £212,000. Given the internal area of 64 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £212,000 ÷ 64 sqm = £3,312.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on WA9 4 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for 'WA9 4' vs 'WA9'

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in WA9 4 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £1,900 to £2,000, £2,000 to £2,100, £2,100 to £2,200 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 353 sales that took place in WA9 4, Clock Face, St Helens in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in WA9 4, Clock Face. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £2,580 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of WA9 4 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for WA9 4

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Clock Face. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'WA9 4' as well as the 'WA9' postcode district.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'WA9 4' is £2,150.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 353 transactions in WA9 4, Clock Face half were sold for between £1,720 and £2,580 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 353 for WA9 4, Clock Face.

    • Property price map for Clock Face

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'WA9 4' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Clock Face
    House price map for Clock Face

    Clock Face house price forecasting

    House prices in WA9 4 grew 8.5% in the last year, 4.4% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in WA9 4 (Clock Face) compared with the wider postcode district of WA9.

    House price index for WA9 4

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

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    The chart above shows changes in 'WA9 4' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in WA9 4 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for WA9 4,Clock Face with the wider postcode district of WA9 What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire St. Helens local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for WA9 4
    WA9 4 sector WA9 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 2.2% -0.6% 2.4% -0.4%
    20 yr total 53.8% -10.9% 60.4% -7.0%
    10 yr per annum 5.2% 2.0% 5.8% 2.6%
    10 yr total 66.7% 22.4% 76.3% 29.5%
    5 yr per annum 7.0% 2.4% 6.4% 1.8%
    5 yr total 40.5% 12.6% 36.4% 9.4%
    1 yr per annum 8.5% 4.4% 6.6% 2.6%
    1 yr total 8.5% 4.4% 6.6% 2.6%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, WA9 4 sector have seen a -0.6% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -10.9% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, WA9 district have seen a 1.8% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 9.4% in real terms.

    Most recent WA9 4 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Leach Lane, Clock Face, WA9 4P 94 sqm £2,106 20
    Tennyson Street, Clock Face, WA9 4B 73 sqm £1,634 15
    Woolacombe Avenue, Clock Face, WA9 4N 62 sqm £2,443 13
    Quicks Field Drive, Clock Face, WA9 4A 97 sqm £2,418 13
    Mill Lane, Clock Face, WA9 4E 82 sqm £1,541 12
    Olivette Way, Clock Face, WA9 4E 92 sqm £2,383 12
    Sommersby Avenue, Clock Face, WA9 4A 94 sqm £2,681 12
    Mill Lane, Clock Face, WA9 4H 84 sqm £2,214 12

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'WA9 4' compares to the other postcode sectors in WA9.

    Sector Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    WA9 5 St Helens £1,700 sqm £2,280 sqm £2,790 sqm 380
    WA9 4 Clock Face £1,720 sqm £2,150 sqm £2,580 sqm 353
    WA9 3 St Helens £1,290 sqm £1,950 sqm £2,440 sqm 368
    WA9 2 St Helens £1,200 sqm £1,470 sqm £1,820 sqm 116
    WA9 1 St Helens £1,170 sqm £1,570 sqm £2,410 sqm 121
    WA8 5 Widnes £2,480 sqm £2,910 sqm £3,340 sqm 95
    WA8 3 Widnes £2,020 sqm £2,540 sqm £3,060 sqm 184
    WA5 4 Burtonwood £1,620 sqm £2,150 sqm £2,640 sqm 112
    WA5 3 Great Sankey £2,810 sqm £3,300 sqm £3,670 sqm 419
    L35 6 Rainhill £2,070 sqm £2,420 sqm £3,030 sqm 25

    Raw data

    Our analysis of WA9 4 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    32, Axbridge Avenue, Clock Face, St Helens £212,000
    Oct-2025
    		 64 3,312
    31, Tennyson St, Clock Face, St Helens £112,000
    Oct-2025
    		 81 1,382
    90, Milton St, Clock Face, St Helens £187,000
    Oct-2025
    		 80 2,337

    See the entire list of all sales in WA9 4 here.

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