Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Burscough Priory Academy is the nearest published school at 87 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L40 0SB
Burscough Town · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Burscough Town
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 0SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 0
- Latitude
- 53.601594
- Longitude
- -2.844690
- British National Grid easting
- 344,200
- British National Grid northing
- 412,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Burscough Town · E05014931
- Parish or community
- E04005303
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129348
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 004C · E01025485
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 004 · E02005307
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 L40
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 87 m
Burscough Priory Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 171 m
Burscough Bridge Methodist School
Voluntary controlled school
- 429 m
Burscough Village Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 616
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 270
- Anti social behaviour 141
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Shoplifting 36
- Public order 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L40 0 residents
- 1,330
Age bands in L40 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.4%
223 residents
173 residents
320 residents
497 residents
351 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
BURSCOUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
315 m
LATHOM HOUSE SURGERY
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
315 m
STANLEY COURT SURGERY
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
315 m
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
4.5 km
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
4.5 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
4.8 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
4.8 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
- 0.0 miles
Stanley Club
BCT · Burscough
- 0.1 miles
Stanley Club
BCT · Burscough
- 0.1 miles
Trevor Road
BCT · Burscough
- 0.1 miles
Trevor Road
BCT · Burscough
- 0.1 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Burscough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 004C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,420 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
616 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 270 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.