Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Chadwick High School is the nearest published school at 87 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA1 2BL
Skerton · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Skerton
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 2BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2018
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 2
- Latitude
- 54.057649
- Longitude
- -2.798797
- British National Grid easting
- 347,808
- British National Grid northing
- 462,705
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Skerton · E05014905
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127654
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 011C · E01025151
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 011 · E02005231
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 87 m
Chadwick High School
Academy alternative provision converter
- 275 m
St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Academy sponsor led
- 358 m
Our Lady's Catholic College
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,193
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,478
- Anti social behaviour 759
- Criminal damage and arson 388
- Shoplifting 366
- Public order 281
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA1 2 residents
- 11,611
Age bands in LA1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
2,258 residents
1,492 residents
3,121 residents
2,982 residents
1,705 residents
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
1.1 km
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Owen Road
BCT · Skerton
- 0.1 miles
Ashton Drive
BCT · Skerton
- 0.1 miles
Owen Road
BCT · Skerton
- 0.1 miles
Owen Road
BCT · Skerton
- 0.2 miles
Norfolk Street
BCT · Skerton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 011C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,941 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,193 published events cover 12 months, averaging 349.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,478 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.