Property market
The five-year median is £430,000 from 6 recorded sales in LA1 5WJ. 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 5WJ
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 5WJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA1
- Postcode sector
- LA1 5
- Latitude
- 54.031097
- Longitude
- -2.804562
- British National Grid easting
- 347,397
- British National Grid northing
- 459,755
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
- E00170162
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 017E · E01025144
- 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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Meadow Lane, Lancaster, LA1 5WJ | 4 July 2025 | £430,000 |
| 6, Meadow Lane, Lancaster, LA1 5WJ | 23 May 2025 | £430,000 |
| 5, Meadow Lane, Lancaster, LA1 5WJ | 31 March 2025 | £440,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 404 m
Jamea Al Kauthar
Other independent school
- 660 m
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 916 m
Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,007
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 363
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Criminal damage and arson 92
- Shoplifting 84
- Public order 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA1 5 residents
- 10,422
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
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 straight-line
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
1.7 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Caspian Way
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.1 miles
Islamic College
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.2 miles
Caspian Way
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.2 miles
Islamic College
BCT · Haverbreaks
- 0.2 miles
Ashford Road
BCT · Haverbreaks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 017E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,573 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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 404 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,007 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 363 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.