Property market
The five-year median is £380,000 from 1 recorded sale in LA1 5BA. 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 5BA
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 5BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 5
- Latitude
- 54.028414
- Longitude
- -2.806556
- British National Grid easting
- 347,263
- British National Grid northing
- 459,458
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
- E00127618
- 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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Ashford Avenue, Lancaster, LA1 5BA | 9 June 2022 | £380,000 |
| Benholme, Ashford Avenue, Lancaster, LA1 5BA | 24 September 2010 | £385,500 |
| Benholme, Ashford Avenue, Lancaster, LA1 5BA | 2 June 2006 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 723 m
Jamea Al Kauthar
Other independent school
- 879 m
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 629
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 227
- Anti social behaviour 120
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Shoplifting 44
- Public order 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- LA1 5 residents
- 10,422
8 female, 9 male
Age bands in LA1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
1,658 residents
1,692 residents
2,764 residents
2,645 residents
1,683 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA1 5 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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- 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
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
2.2 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
- 0.0 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.1 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.1 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.1 miles
Caspian Way
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.1 miles
Caspian Way
BCT · Haverbreaks
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.
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
Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Jamea Al Kauthar is the nearest published school at 723 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
629 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 227 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.