Property market
The five-year median is £410,750 from 6 recorded sales in LA1 4EW. 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 4EW
Scotforth East · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Lancaster
- Ward
- Scotforth East
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 4EW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
- Latitude
- 54.028781
- Longitude
- -2.793297
- British National Grid easting
- 348,132
- British National Grid northing
- 459,489
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Scotforth East · E05014902
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127608
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 018B · E01025141
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 018 · E02005238
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
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Yealand Drive, Lancaster, LA1 4EW | 17 December 2025 | £351,500 |
| 33, Yealand Drive, Lancaster, LA1 4EW | 28 September 2023 | £285,000 |
| 23, Yealand Drive, Lancaster, LA1 4EW | 26 June 2023 | £587,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 369 m
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 705 m
Moorside Primary School
Community school
- 705 m
Stepping Stones School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 878
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 333
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Criminal damage and arson 91
- Public order 67
- Burglary 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 88
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- LA1 4 residents
- 14,931
45 female, 43 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA1 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
2.0 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
2.1 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brooklands Court
BCT · Hala
- 0.1 miles
Brooklands Court
BCT · Hala
- 0.1 miles
Bowling Green
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Booths Supermarket
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Hall Park
BCT · Scotforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 018B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,190 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
31 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 369 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
878 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.