Property market
The five-year median is £1,475,000 from 2 recorded sales in LA1 3RS. 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 3RS
Bowerham · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 3RS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 3
- Latitude
- 54.040200
- Longitude
- -2.788597
- British National Grid easting
- 348,454
- British National Grid northing
- 460,756
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Bowerham · E05014887
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00170165
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 015E · E01034763
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 015 · E02005235
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lancaster Development, Area One, Bowerham Road, Lancaster, LA1 3RS | 29 October 2021 | £2,250,000 |
| Lancaster Development, Area One, Bowerham Road, Lancaster, LA1 3RS | 29 October 2021 | £700,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 219 m
Bowerham Primary & Nursery School
Community school
- 776 m
The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Voluntary aided school
- 786 m
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,090
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 998
- Anti social behaviour 583
- Shoplifting 350
- Public order 254
- Criminal damage and arson 245
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
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
997 m
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
1.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Malvern Avenue
BCT · Bowerham
- 0.1 miles
Malvern Avenue
BCT · Bowerham
- 0.1 miles
Cork Road
BCT · Bowerham
- 0.1 miles
Cork Road
BCT · Bowerham
- 0.2 miles
Bowerham Hotel
BCT · Bowerham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 015E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,954 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 9
- 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
32 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Bowerham Primary & Nursery School is the nearest published school at 219 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,090 published events cover 12 months, averaging 257.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 998 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.