Property market
The five-year median is £191,000 from 14 recorded sales in LA1 5DQ. 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 5DQ
Marsh · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA1 5DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 5
- Latitude
- 54.045588
- Longitude
- -2.808233
- British National Grid easting
- 347,175
- British National Grid northing
- 461,370
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Marsh · E05014898
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127402
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 017C · E01025102
- 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
84 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 72, Sibsey Street, Lancaster, LA1 5DQ | 17 September 2025 | £175,000 |
| 63, Sibsey Street, Lancaster, LA1 5DQ | 31 July 2025 | £210,000 |
| 84, Sibsey Street, Lancaster, LA1 5DQ | 28 March 2025 | £197,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 7
- 306 m
Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School
Community school
- 322 m
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Academy converter
- 531 m
Appletree Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,835
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,291
- Anti social behaviour 701
- Shoplifting 356
- Criminal damage and arson 313
- Public order 295
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 104
- Postcode households
- 47
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- LA1 5 residents
- 10,422
49 female, 55 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 1% 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+
- 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 straight-line
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
480 m
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
756 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Sibsey Street
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.2 miles
Meeting House Lane
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.2 miles
Rail Station Taxi Rank
TXR · Lancaster City Centre
- 0.2 miles
Lancaster Rail Station
RSE · Lancaster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 017C, 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
19,532 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 11
- Low risk addresses
- 14
- 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
41 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 7 secondary schools. Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,835 published events cover 12 months, averaging 319.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,291 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.