Property market
The five-year median is £330,000 from 3 recorded sales in LA1 1BJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lancaster is £199,762 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
LA1 1BJ
Castle · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 1BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 1
- Latitude
- 54.046108
- Longitude
- -2.797674
- British National Grid easting
- 347,867
- British National Grid northing
- 461,420
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05014890
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00170161
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 014E · E01033071
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 014 · E02005234
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 LA1
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Aalborg Place, Lancaster, LA1 1BJ | 28 June 2024 | £335,000 |
| 2, Aalborg Place, Lancaster, LA1 1BJ | 1 April 2022 | £330,000 |
| 1, Aalborg Place, Lancaster, LA1 1BJ | 27 August 2021 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 319 m
The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Voluntary aided school
- 372 m
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Academy converter
- 410 m
Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,001
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,375
- Anti social behaviour 753
- Criminal damage and arson 332
- Shoplifting 329
- Public order 301
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 4.3
- LA1 1 residents
- 6,702
4 female, 9 male
Age bands in LA1 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 46.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 13.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.6%
510 residents
3,175 residents
1,559 residents
941 residents
656 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA1 1 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+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 85.7%
- 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
2
within 5 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
168 m
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
218 m
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
- 0.1 miles
George Street
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.1 miles
George Street
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.1 miles
Robert Street
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.1 miles
Penny Street
TXR · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.1 miles
Robert Street
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 014E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,093 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
37 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster is the nearest published school at 319 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,001 published events cover 12 months, averaging 333.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,375 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.