Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Poplar House School is the nearest published school at 38 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
FY8 1FX
Ashton · Fylde · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- FY8 1FX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- FY
- Postcode district
- FY8
- Postcode sector
- FY8 1
- Latitude
- 53.754455
- Longitude
- -3.024035
- British National Grid easting
- 332,577
- British National Grid northing
- 429,162
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Fylde · E07000119
- Electoral ward
- Ashton · E05014539
- Parish or community
- E04005176
- Westminster constituency
- Fylde · E14001242
- Output area
- E00126829
- Lower layer super output area
- Fylde 006D · E01024987
- Middle layer super output area
- Fylde 006 · E02005208
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 FY8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 38 m
Poplar House School
Other independent special school
- 440 m
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 528 m
Heyhouses Endowed Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,204
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 830
- Anti social behaviour 485
- Shoplifting 177
- Criminal damage and arson 173
- Other theft 127
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- FY8 1 residents
- 9,148
Age bands in FY8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.7%
977 residents
766 residents
1,751 residents
2,792 residents
3,051 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
PARCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
ST ANNES HEALTH CENTRE, DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81150
445 m
POPLAR HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81031
445 m
ANSDELL MEDICAL CENTRE
ALBANY ROAD, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 4GW
ODS code P81037
1.8 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
SOUTH SHORE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TJ
ODS code P81074
3.4 km
STONYHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOUTH SHORE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TJ
ODS code P81159
3.4 km
ABBEY DALE MEDICAL CENTRE
50 COMMON EDGE ROAD, MARTON, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5AU
ODS code P81714
3.8 km
ARNOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
204 ST. ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2EF
ODS code P81081
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Albans Road
BCT · St Annes
- 0.0 miles
St Albans Road
BCT · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
St Patricks Road South
BCT · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
YMCA
BCT · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
Our Lady Church
BCT · St Annes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fylde 006D, 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
1,708 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
2,204 published events cover 12 months, averaging 183.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 830 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.