Burscough Town · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Burscough Priory Academy
Academy sponsor led
Burscough Lordsgate Township Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Burscough Bridge Methodist School
Voluntary controlled school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
25 female, 22 male
817 residents
480 residents
1,166 residents
1,210 residents
996 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L40 7 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
6
within 5 km
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
861 m
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
861 m
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
861 m
18 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81014
4.0 km
16 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2BY
ODS code P81045
4.0 km
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
4.3 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.
Higgins Lane
BCT · Burscough
Hesketh Road
BCT · Burscough
Truscott Road
BCT · Burscough
Hesketh Road
BCT · Burscough
Hesketh Road
BCT · Burscough
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 004E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,022 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Burscough Priory Academy is the nearest published school at 470 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
685 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 282 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.