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infobox UK place
| country = England
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| official name = Birchwood
| static image name = Main Entrance to The Birchwood Shopping Centre geograph. org. uk 1035107. jpg
| static image caption = Birchwood Shopping Centre
| population = 10,614
| population ref = (2021) Located originally in Lancashire, it was built as a new town in the 1970s. Birchwood is made up of three districts: Gorse Covert, Locking Stumps and Oakwood.

Birchwood is very close to Junction 11 of the M62, providing access to Liverpool (22 miles/35 km) and Manchester (15 miles/24 km). Junction 11 is notable for the Encounter statue (also known as the Angel of Birchwood). Birchwood is close to Junction 21 of the M6, giving access to Birmingham (80 miles/128 km). Birchwood is approximately 5 mile (8 km) from Warrington town centre (via Birchwood Way) and Leigh (11 miles/18 km) (via Warrington Road).

There are six bus routes operating through the Birchwood area, all of which are operated by Warrington's Own Buses. The 17 and 25 operate through all parts of Birchwood to Warrington, with the Gorse Covert SPAR shop (25) or Oakwood Keyes Close (17) acting as termini. The routes differ in the precise routes they take to Warrington bus station, and in their regularity. Service 25 is the main service, The 28E operates the evening services Monday to Saturday going from Warrington bus station to Leigh bus station. The first service starts at 19:00 and the last service is at 23:00 departing at each ends of the line

The 28 also starts at Warrington bus station, then through Birchwood and on to Leigh via Culcheth. The 28A operates the same route but does not go through Birchwood or Oakwood. A shuttle bus service for workers runs between the railway station and Birchwood Park business park.

The area east of Birchwood is mainly birch forests and Risley Moss, part of the Mersey Forest. Risley Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The bulk of Birchwood is built on the site of the former ROF Risley Royal Ordnance Factory, with Birchwood Forest Park lying in the centre, in which the old bunkers from the factory form part of the landscape.

Birchwood has three primary schools, one per area, and Birchwood Community High School. Birchwood College is next to the high school.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter. The town is served by both BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Manchester. Other radio stations are Heart North West, Smooth North West, Capital North West & Wales, Greatest Hits Radio Liverpool & The North West (formerly Wire FM) and Warrington Radio, a community based station which broadcast from nearby Warrington. The town is served by the local newspaper, Warrington Guardian.

To the north of the Royal Ordnance Factory, Risley was the site chosen for the design offices and headquarters of the Department of ATomic ENergy (DATEN) after the Second World War. Later to become the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the offices were charged with the manufacture of the nuclear reactors and process plants at Windscale to help build the UK's atomic defence. Following on from the weapons program, the Risley offices were responsible for the building of the Magnox and AGR designs of reactor in the UK. In 1971 BNFL was set up from the production division of the UKAEA, and until 2003 its headquarters were at Risley. BNFL's headquarters are now at Daresbury Park industrial estate, also near to Warrington. BNFL (now represented by Sellafield Ltd and Nexia Solutions) maintains a large office of the site, which is something of a nuclear nexus, with AMEC (Formerly NNC), Nuvia (formerly NUKEM Engineering Limited), WS Atkins Design, Environment & Engineering, Nuclear Technologies plc, Serco and Assurance Quintessa (among others) based on Birchwood Park. WS Atkins has one office in Birchwood, at Chadwick House, containing various business units including Water, Highways and Transportation, Design Solutions, Rail, Nuclear and Faithful+Gould.

The first tier of local government is Birchwood Town Council. Birchwood ward elects three members of Warrington Borough Council. For national elections, the parish is part of the Warrington North constituency.

Data is based on that of Birchwood Ward.

Birchwood has a total population of 11,220 residents, of which 50.3% are male and 49.7% are female. The average age of the population at the census was 37.2 years. The majority of the population describe their race as White (97.05%), while minorities are mixed (0.9%), Black (0.4%) and Asian (0.9%). Other racial origins account for 0.8% of the population.

At the census, the Birchwood ward of Warrington had 4,919 houses. 65.6% are classed as owner occupied, 28.3% are council accommodation, 4.8% are rented from other sources and 1.3% of houses have residents living rent free. The average house price for all houses in Birchwood was £118,635. 7% of all households in the ward are overcrowded. The population density in the ward is 13.9 residents per hectare. In terms of the ACORN index, 35.7% (the majority) describe Warrington as a comfortably well off area, on the other hand in terms of economic indices, Birchwood is a slightly below average area. 5.4% of residents at the last survey were on some form of benefits.

At 2005, Birchwood had 65.6% employment, with only 3.4% of all economically active people unemployed. 2.8% of the population are students in full time higher education. 28.2% of the total population are economically inactive (due to retirement, ill health, or full time carer status). According to ward statistics, of the population (in Birchwood ward). 24.2% are unqualified (either due to leaving school early or failing the end of school examinations). 48.4% have level 1 or 2 qualifications (level 1 being 1+ GCSE (A* G) or "O" Level or equivalent, level 2 being 5+ GCSEs (grades A* C), 1+'A' levels/ AS levels (A E) or equivalent). 20.8% have received level 3+ qualifications (meaning 2+ A levels (A E), 4+ AS levels (A E) or equivalent minimum).

Gorse Covert is the easternmost of the districts which form the town of Birchwood in Warrington. It is also the most easterly part of the Warrington urban area (though not of Warrington borough). It was formerly site 6 of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Risley. It is now a large, lively, suburban residential area with a mixture of good quality housing. It has a pub (The Poacher), and Indian Restaurant/Take Away (Birchwood Spice), a primary school (Gorse Covert Primary School), a pre school (Village Pre School) and a local shop (One Stop). Gorse Covert also has woodland areas and walks with views from Pestfurlong Hill. At the 2001 census (the next one scheduled for 2011), there were 2791 residents living in 1191 properties (statistic areas 005B and 004B – Gorse Covert, Risley South and Locking Stumps East). Of these properties 81% are owner occupied, with the remainder being rented, either from the council, local housing authority or private landlords. Gorse Covert residents are approximately 23% more likely to be in paid employment than the average for England and Wales, with an unemployment rate of around 1.9% (around 53 residents) of all economically active people aged 16–74. 16% of economically active residents (i. e. 16 to 74 year olds) do not have any form of qualification (around 446 residents).

Birchwood Park is a mixed use business park and is located in the North West of England close to Warrington between Manchester and Liverpool. The M6 and M62 interchange is only minutes away and provides links to the surrounding region and beyond. The site is owned by MEPC. 4,200 people are employed on the park, and a free bus service runs twice each morning from Warrington Bank Quay Station.