Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Rufford CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L40 1BA
Burscough Bridge & Rufford · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- Southport
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 1BA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2005
- Terminated
- 1 January 2005
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 1
- Latitude
- 53.648319
- Longitude
- -2.821009
- British National Grid easting
- 345,827
- British National Grid northing
- 417,180
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Burscough Bridge & Rufford · E05014930
- Parish or community
- E04005313
- Westminster constituency
- Southport · E14001504
- Output area
- E00129469
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002D · E01025513
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002 · E02005305
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
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.6 km
Rufford CofE School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.8 km
Holmeswood Methodist School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
Tarleton Holy Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other theft 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L40 1 residents
- 2,226
Age bands in L40 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
289 residents
198 residents
349 residents
716 residents
610 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
TARLETON GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, GORSE LANE, TARLETON, PRESTON, PR4 6UJ
ODS code P81710
3.5 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Rufford Arms
BCT · Rufford
- 0.2 miles
The Rufford Arms
BCT · Rufford
- 0.2 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Rufford
- 0.3 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Rufford
- 0.6 miles
Rufford Old Hall
BCT · Rufford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 002D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.