Property market
The five-year median is £369,774 from 3 recorded sales in LA1 4FH. 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 4FH
Scotforth West · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Lancaster
- Ward
- Scotforth West
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 4FH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 4
- Latitude
- 54.023074
- Longitude
- -2.796057
- British National Grid easting
- 347,944
- British National Grid northing
- 458,856
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Scotforth West · E05014903
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127619
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 017F · E01025146
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 017 · E02005237
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Dropple End, Lancaster, LA1 4FH | 29 August 2025 | £535,000 |
| 14, Dropple End, Lancaster, LA1 4FH | 3 June 2025 | £369,774 |
| 15, Dropple End, Lancaster, LA1 4FH | 3 June 2025 | £260,920 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 999 m
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Jamea Al Kauthar
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Moorside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 538
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 181
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Criminal damage and arson 68
- Shoplifting 42
- Other theft 39
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.
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+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
2.6 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whinfell Drive
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Oakwood Gardens
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Whinfell Drive
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Maplewood Gardens
BCT · Scotforth
- 0.1 miles
Maplewood Gardens
BCT · Scotforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 017F, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,707 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 999 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
538 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 181 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.