Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cumberland School is the nearest published school at 19 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL6 7JP
Adlington & Anderton · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Adlington & Anderton
- Local authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 7JP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 7
- Latitude
- 53.611394
- Longitude
- -2.551652
- British National Grid easting
- 363,600
- British National Grid northing
- 412,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Adlington & Anderton · E05013064
- Parish or community
- E04005157
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00181937
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 014E · E01024973
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 014 · E02005202
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 19 m
Cumberland School
Other independent special school
- 201 m
Rivington and Blackrod High School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Beacon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Possession of weapons 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL6 7 residents
- 6,520
Age bands in BL6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
943 residents
694 residents
1,564 residents
1,842 residents
1,301 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
1.6 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
1.9 km
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
3.0 km
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Rivington & Blackrod High School
BCT · Rivington
- 0.4 miles
Shaw Road
BCT · Horwich
- 0.4 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Horwich
- 0.4 miles
Old Lord's Crescent
BCT · Horwich
- 0.4 miles
Chiltern Close
BCT · Horwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 014E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,970 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.