Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Acorns School is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L39 4QY
Ormskirk East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ormskirk East
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L39 4QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 4
- Latitude
- 53.565043
- Longitude
- -2.880152
- British National Grid easting
- 341,803
- British National Grid northing
- 407,962
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Ormskirk East · E05014934
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129356
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 007A · E01025488
- 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
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 297 m
The Acorns School
Pupil referral unit
- 468 m
Moorgate Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 619 m
Turning Point Academy
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,166
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 496
- Anti social behaviour 235
- Shoplifting 97
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Other theft 66
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L39 4 residents
- 8,740
Age bands in L39 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 50.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 11.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 15.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
697 residents
4,641 residents
1,036 residents
1,450 residents
1,296 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
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
174 m
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
473 m
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
473 m
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
2.8 km
BURSCOUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
4.9 km
LATHOM HOUSE SURGERY
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
4.9 km
STANLEY COURT SURGERY
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Playing Field
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
School House Green
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
Bus Station
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
Bus Station
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.2 miles
Playing Field
BCT · Ormskirk
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 007A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,114 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,166 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 496 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.