Property market
The five-year median is £527,000 from 1 recorded sale in L40 6JJ. 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 6JJ
Skelmersdale North · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Ward
- Skelmersdale North
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 6JJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 6
- Latitude
- 53.568870
- Longitude
- -2.786401
- British National Grid easting
- 348,017
- British National Grid northing
- 408,315
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Skelmersdale North · E05014939
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129254
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 009A · E01025468
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 009 · E02005312
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ashtons Farm, Cobbs Brow Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JJ | 10 April 2026 | £527,000 |
| Woodcroft, Cobbs Brow Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JJ | 19 August 2011 | £177,500 |
| Ashtons Farm, Cobbs Brow Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JJ | 6 July 2009 | £280,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 3
- 286 m
Maharishi Free School
Free schools
- 770 m
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
- 777 m
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 461
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 199
- Anti social behaviour 98
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Other theft 29
- Other crime 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- L40 6 residents
- 1,232
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in L40 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
115 residents
81 residents
161 residents
226 residents
318 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L40 6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
1.1 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
2.5 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
2.5 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
2.6 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
2.8 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
3.9 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Cobbs Clough Road
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.2 miles
Ulverston Drive
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.2 miles
Ulverston Drive
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Merewood
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Merewood
BCT · Ashurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 009A, 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
26,311 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. Maharishi Free School is the nearest published school at 286 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
461 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 199 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.