Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rainbow Hub School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L40 2RX
Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton South · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 2RX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 2
- Latitude
- 53.639664
- Longitude
- -2.745426
- British National Grid easting
- 350,813
- British National Grid northing
- 416,162
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
- E00126715
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 011D · E01024965
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 011 · E02005199
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
- 12
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.0 km
Rainbow Hub School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Eccleston Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Eccleston St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Other theft 7
- Other crime 6
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L40 2 residents
- 1,335
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
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
1
within 5 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
3.1 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Nook Lane
BCT · Mawdesley
- 0.2 miles
Robin Hood
BCT · Mawdesley
- 0.9 miles
Primary School
BCT · Eccleston
- 0.9 miles
Ridley Lane
BCT · Mawdesley
- 0.9 miles
Black Bull
BCT · Andertons Mill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 011D, 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
29,908 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.