Property market
The five-year median is £651,400 from 2 recorded sales in L40 2QU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Chorley is £212,647 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
L40 2QU
Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton South · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Local authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 2QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 2
- Latitude
- 53.629103
- Longitude
- -2.754056
- British National Grid easting
- 350,230
- British National Grid northing
- 414,993
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton South · E05013075
- Parish or community
- E04005156
- Westminster constituency
- South Ribble · E14001491
- Output area
- E00126717
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 007A · E01024964
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 007 · E02005195
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
Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Delfryn, Dark Lane, Mawdesley, Ormskirk, L40 2QU | 16 March 2026 | £670,000 |
| Oakwood, Dark Lane, Mawdesley, Ormskirk, L40 2QU | 16 April 2024 | £632,800 |
| 18, Dark Lane, Mawdesley, Ormskirk, L40 2QU | 11 February 2021 | £380,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 673 m
Rainbow Hub School
Other independent special school
- 732 m
St Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, Mawdesley
Voluntary aided school
- 1.0 km
Mawdesley St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Other theft 4
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- L40 2 residents
- 1,335
26 female, 19 male
Age bands in L40 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.6%
227 residents
148 residents
245 residents
429 residents
463 residents
This postcode contained 3.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L40 2 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+
- 64.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 64.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 64.4%
- 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
2
within 5 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
3.9 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
4.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ridley Lane
BCT · Mawdesley
- 0.3 miles
Black Bull
BCT · Andertons Mill
- 0.5 miles
St Peter and Paul RCPS
BCT · Mawdesley
- 0.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Four Lane Ends
- 0.6 miles
Post Office
BCT · Mawdesley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,287 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 1
- 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
Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rainbow Hub School is the nearest published school at 673 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.