Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Chadwick High School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA1 3NQ
Bulk · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bulk
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 3NQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 3
- Latitude
- 54.060360
- Longitude
- -2.789805
- British National Grid easting
- 348,400
- British National Grid northing
- 463,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Bulk · E05014888
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127346
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 013B · E01025092
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 013 · E02005233
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
- 40
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 608 m
Chadwick High School
Academy alternative provision converter
- 634 m
St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Academy sponsor led
- 760 m
Castle View Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,218
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,168
- Anti social behaviour 565
- Criminal damage and arson 317
- Shoplifting 240
- Public order 218
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA1 3 residents
- 12,328
Age bands in LA1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 22%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
1,844 residents
2,629 residents
3,597 residents
2,586 residents
1,320 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
1.5 km
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Grizedale Rd
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Langdale Rd
BCT · Lansil
- 0.1 miles
Langdale Rd
BCT · Lansil
- 0.1 miles
Grizedale Road
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Scafell Road
BCT · Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 013B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,071 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,218 published events cover 12 months, averaging 268.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,168 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.