Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Edge Hill University is the nearest published school at 736 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L39 9EA
Rural South · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Ward
- Rural South
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L39 9EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L39
- Postcode sector
- L39 9
- Latitude
- 53.554231
- Longitude
- -2.867671
- British National Grid easting
- 342,615
- British National Grid northing
- 406,749
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural South · E05014937
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00182022
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 008B · E01025491
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 008 · E02005311
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Hawthornes, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 9EA | 22 April 2015 | £431,500 |
| The Hawthornes, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 9EA | 24 March 2000 | £210,000 |
| Dell Cottage, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 9EA | 21 May 1999 | £132,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 736 m
Edge Hill University
Higher education institutions
- 1.2 km
The Acorns School
Pupil referral unit
- 1.4 km
Ormskirk School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 294
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 152
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Shoplifting 14
- Other theft 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- L39 9 residents
- 160
3 female, 4 male
This postcode contained 4.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L39 9 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+
- 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
6
within 5 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
1.5 km
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
1.9 km
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
1.9 km
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
2.6 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
4.1 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
4.1 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
- 0.1 miles
Scarth Hill Lane
BCT · Scarth Hill
- 0.1 miles
Scarth Hill Lane
BCT · Scarth Hill
- 0.3 miles
Creative Edge
BCT · Edge Hill
- 0.4 miles
Forest Court
BCT · Edge Hill
- 0.4 miles
Edge Hill University
BCT · Edge Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 008B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,397 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
294 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 152 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.