Property market
The five-year median is £305,000 from 1 recorded sale in L40 6LP. 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 6LP
Rural South · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Ward
- Rural South
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 6LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 6
- Latitude
- 53.563262
- Longitude
- -2.842929
- British National Grid easting
- 344,266
- British National Grid northing
- 407,734
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural South · E05014937
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129350
- 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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Meadowbridge Close, Westhead, Ormskirk, L40 6LP | 20 March 2026 | £305,000 |
| 3, Meadowbridge Close, Westhead, Ormskirk, L40 6LP | 26 August 2016 | £275,000 |
| 2, Meadowbridge Close, Westhead, Ormskirk, L40 6LP | 21 January 2000 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 141 m
Westhead Lathom St James' Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.6 km
Ormskirk School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
Edge Hill University
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Public order 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- L40 6 residents
- 1,232
3 female, 2 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 0.4% 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
10
within 5 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
2.6 km
ORMSKIRK MEDICAL PRACTICE
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
2.8 km
THE ELMS PRACTICE
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
2.8 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
2.8 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
2.8 km
BURSCOUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
4.4 km
LATHOM HOUSE SURGERY
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
4.4 km
STANLEY COURT SURGERY
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
4.4 km
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
4.5 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
4.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Prince Albert
BCT · Westhead
- 0.1 miles
Prince Albert
BCT · Westhead
- 0.2 miles
Ormond Avenue
BCT · Westhead
- 0.2 miles
Castle Lane
BCT · Westhead
- 0.3 miles
Plough Lane
BCT · Lathom
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
- 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Westhead Lathom St James' Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 141 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.