Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 5 secondary schools. Moorside Primary School is the nearest published school at 936 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA2 0RA
Ellel · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ellel
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- LA2
- Postcode sector
- LA2 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA2 0RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA2
- Postcode sector
- LA2 0
- Latitude
- 54.024474
- Longitude
- -2.779965
- British National Grid easting
- 349,000
- British National Grid northing
- 459,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Ellel · E05014891
- Parish or community
- E04005203
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00127423
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 019C · E01025107
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 019 · E02005239
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
- 26
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 5
- 936 m
Moorside Primary School
Community school
- 936 m
Stepping Stones School
Pupil referral unit
- 1.0 km
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, Lancaster
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 399
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 134
- Anti social behaviour 87
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Shoplifting 40
- Other theft 23
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
2.8 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Bentham Road
BCT · Hala
- 0.3 miles
Lingfield Close
BCT · The Racecourses
- 0.4 miles
Haydock Road
BCT · The Racecourses
- 0.4 miles
Haydock Road
BCT · The Racecourses
- 0.4 miles
Hala Square
BCT · Hala
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 019C, 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
17,186 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
399 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 134 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.