Skerton · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 40, Vale Road, Lancaster, LA1 2JL | 7 January 2026 | £195,000 |
| 96, Vale Road, Lancaster, LA1 2JL | 30 September 2025 | £180,000 |
| 56, Vale Road, Lancaster, LA1 2JL | 18 December 2024 | £178,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Skerton St Luke's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Academy sponsor led
Beaumont College - A Salutem/Ambito College
Special post 16 institution
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
68 female, 63 male
2,258 residents
1,492 residents
3,121 residents
2,982 residents
1,705 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
NHS ODS
2
within 5 km
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
1.8 km
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
1.9 km
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Noel Road
BCT · Vale
Baker Street
BCT · Skerton
Fairhope Avenue
BCT · Vale
Baker Street
BCT · Skerton
Vale Road
BCT · Skerton
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 011A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,524 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.
A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.
Recorded sales
The five-year median is £180,000 from 13 recorded sales in LA1 2JL. 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.
Published establishments
40 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 7 secondary schools. Skerton St Luke's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 209 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Published police records
3,167 published events cover 12 months, averaging 263.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,167 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.