Property market
The five-year median is £909,300 from 1 recorded sale in L40 5TR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Lancashire is £231,816 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
L40 5TR
Ormskirk East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Ward
- Ormskirk East
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 5TR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 5
- Latitude
- 53.572982
- Longitude
- -2.865065
- British National Grid easting
- 342,813
- British National Grid northing
- 408,833
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Ormskirk East · E05014934
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129365
- 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 L40
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Cottage, Dark Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 5TR | 3 September 2021 | £909,300 |
| Roydham, Dark Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 5TR | 18 September 2020 | £355,000 |
| Penrhyn, Dark Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 5TR | 20 April 2017 | £335,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 733 m
Ormskirk School
Academy sponsor led
- 765 m
Ormskirk Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.2 km
The Acorns School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 877
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 388
- Anti social behaviour 167
- Criminal damage and arson 64
- Other theft 54
- Shoplifting 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 60
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- L40 5 residents
- 3,563
30 female, 30 male
Age bands in L40 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
551 residents
322 residents
774 residents
960 residents
769 residents
This postcode contained 1.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L40 5 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.5%
- 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
9
within 5 km
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
1.4 km
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
1.4 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
1.5 km
BURSCOUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
3.7 km
LATHOM HOUSE SURGERY
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
3.7 km
STANLEY COURT SURGERY
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
3.7 km
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
4.1 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
4.6 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
4.6 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
- 0.5 miles
Tower Hill
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.5 miles
School Grounds
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.5 miles
Greetby Hill
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.5 miles
Ormskirk School
BCT · Ormskirk
- 0.5 miles
Ormskirk School
BCT · Ormskirk
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
- 1
- 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Ormskirk School is the nearest published school at 733 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
877 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 388 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.