Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Poplar House School is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
FY8 2AP
Ashton · Fylde · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- FY8 2AP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- FY
- Postcode district
- FY8
- Postcode sector
- FY8 2
- Latitude
- 53.752963
- Longitude
- -3.028200
- British National Grid easting
- 332,300
- British National Grid northing
- 429,000
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
- E00126832
- 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
- 25
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 297 m
Poplar House School
Other independent special school
- 506 m
St Anne's College Grammar School
Other independent school
- 558 m
Red Rose School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,931
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 719
- Anti social behaviour 430
- Shoplifting 157
- Criminal damage and arson 154
- Other theft 110
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- FY8 2 residents
- 9,393
Age bands in FY8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.2%
1,248 residents
743 residents
1,865 residents
2,818 residents
2,887 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
PARCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
ST ANNES HEALTH CENTRE, DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81150
258 m
POPLAR HOUSE SURGERY
DURHAM AVENUE, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 2EP
ODS code P81031
258 m
ANSDELL MEDICAL CENTRE
ALBANY ROAD, LYTHAM ST. ANNES, FY8 4GW
ODS code P81037
2.0 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
3.9 km
ARNOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
204 ST. ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2EF
ODS code P81081
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Annes-on-the-Sea Rail Station
RLY · St Annes
- 0.0 miles
St Annes-on-the-Sea Rail Station
RSE · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
North Crescent
BCT · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
Our Lady Church
BCT · St Annes
- 0.1 miles
Back North Crescent
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,931 published events cover 12 months, averaging 160.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 719 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.