Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Thames Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 416 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
FY4 1AL
Waterloo · Blackpool · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Waterloo
- Local authority
- Blackpool
- Constituency
- Blackpool South
- Postcode district
- FY4
- Postcode sector
- FY4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- FY4 1AL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- FY
- Postcode district
- FY4
- Postcode sector
- FY4 1
- Latitude
- 53.795551
- Longitude
- -3.052894
- British National Grid easting
- 330,742
- British National Grid northing
- 433,762
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackpool · E06000009
- Electoral ward
- Waterloo · E05015206
- Parish or community
- E43000009
- Westminster constituency
- Blackpool South · E14001105
- Output area
- E00064320
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackpool 013D · E01012751
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackpool 013 · E02002645
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 FY4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 416 m
Thames Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 571 m
St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 597 m
South Shore Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,586
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,414
- Anti social behaviour 933
- Criminal damage and arson 429
- Other theft 373
- Public order 343
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- FY4 1 residents
- 8,489
7 female, 7 male
Age bands in FY4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
1,067 residents
808 residents
1,794 residents
2,395 residents
1,785 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider FY4 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
15
within 5 km
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
178 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3AD
ODS code P81016
891 m
BLOOMFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
118-120 BLOOMFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6JW
ODS code P81115
1.2 km
ARNOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
204 ST. ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2EF
ODS code P81081
1.2 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
SOUTH SHORE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TJ
ODS code P81074
1.6 km
STONYHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOUTH SHORE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TJ
ODS code P81159
1.6 km
ABBEY DALE MEDICAL CENTRE
50 COMMON EDGE ROAD, MARTON, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5AU
ODS code P81714
2.1 km
GP LED HEALTH CENTRE
OPEN ACCESS GP SURGERY, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ES
ODS code Y02854
2.3 km
MARTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
WHITEGATE HEALTH CENTRE, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ES
ODS code P81054
2.3 km
SOUTH KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 25 SOUTH KING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4NF
ODS code P81043
2.4 km
ADELAIDE STREET SURGERY
61 ELIZABETH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3JG
ODS code P81042
2.9 km
ST PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE
DICKSON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2HH
ODS code P81063
3.7 km
LAYTON MEDICAL CENTRE
200 KINGSCOTE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7EN
ODS code P81066
3.9 km
NEWTON DRIVE HEALTH CENTRE
NEWTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NX
ODS code P81172
4.2 km
PARCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
ST ANNES HEALTH CENTRE, DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81150
4.8 km
POPLAR HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81031
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Withnell Road
BCT · Pleasure Beach
- 0.0 miles
Station Road
BCT · Pleasure Beach
- 0.1 miles
Pleasure Beach
BCT · Pleasure Beach
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Royal Oak
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Royal Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackpool 013D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
14 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,586 published events cover 12 months, averaging 465.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,414 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.