Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Jamea Al Kauthar is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA2 0AL
Scotforth West · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Scotforth West
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA2
- Postcode sector
- LA2 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA2 0AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2009
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA2
- Postcode sector
- LA2 0
- Latitude
- 54.022273
- Longitude
- -2.822830
- British National Grid easting
- 346,189
- British National Grid northing
- 458,787
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Scotforth West · E05014903
- Parish or community
- E04012674
- 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 LA2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.9 km
Jamea Al Kauthar
Other independent school
- 2.1 km
Scotforth St Paul's Church of England Primary and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.3 km
Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 28
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA2 0 residents
- 6,123
Age bands in LA2 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 34.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
690 residents
2,083 residents
1,098 residents
1,298 residents
936 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
3.0 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Carr Lane Bridge
BCT · Stodday
- 0.5 miles
Carr Lane Bridge
BCT · Stodday
- 0.5 miles
Pinewood Close
BCT · Hall Park Road
- 0.7 miles
Tarnwater Road
BCT · Stodday
- 0.7 miles
Tarnwater Road
BCT · Stodday
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
Recorded crime
28 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.