Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. University of Lancaster is the nearest published school at 145 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA1 4AP
University · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- University
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 4AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
- Latitude
- 54.009176
- Longitude
- -2.786881
- British National Grid easting
- 348,528
- British National Grid northing
- 457,303
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- University · E05014907
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00170168
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 019A · E01025105
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 019 · E02005239
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
- 21
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 145 m
University of Lancaster
Higher education institutions
- 1.8 km
Ellel St John the Evangelist Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.6 km
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 110
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 28
- Violence and sexual offences 28
- Bicycle theft 15
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA1 4 residents
- 14,931
Age bands in LA1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 30.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,969 residents
4,620 residents
3,100 residents
3,012 residents
2,349 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
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
4.2 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
4.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Underpass
BCT · Lancaster University
- 0.1 miles
Management School
BCT · Lancaster University
- 0.1 miles
Chaplaincy Centre
BCT · Lancaster University
- 0.2 miles
Furness College
BCT · Lancaster University
- 0.2 miles
InfoLab21
BCT · Lancaster University
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 019A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,208 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
Recorded crime
110 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 28 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.