Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Moorgate Nursery School is the nearest published school at 154 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L39 3BU
Ormskirk West · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ormskirk West
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L39 3BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 3
- Latitude
- 53.565317
- Longitude
- -2.889262
- British National Grid easting
- 341,200
- British National Grid northing
- 408,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Ormskirk West · E05014935
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129408
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 007D · E01025500
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 007 · E02005310
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 L39
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 154 m
Moorgate Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 184 m
Ormskirk St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 439 m
St Bede's Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,179
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 493
- Anti social behaviour 238
- Shoplifting 97
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Other theft 66
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L39 3 residents
- 3,402
Age bands in L39 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
378 residents
445 residents
591 residents
850 residents
966 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
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
436 m
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
495 m
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
495 m
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park Road
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.1 miles
Aughton Street
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
County Road
BCT · Ormskirk
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 007D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,244 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,179 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 493 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.