Property market
The five-year median is £217,500 from 2 recorded sales in LA3 1BE. 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.
LA3 1BE
West End · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA3 1BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA3
- Postcode sector
- LA3 1
- Latitude
- 54.060649
- Longitude
- -2.874283
- British National Grid easting
- 342,871
- British National Grid northing
- 463,097
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- West End · E05014910
- Parish or community
- E04012009
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127476
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 008C · E01025118
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 008 · E02005228
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 LA3
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 69, Buckingham Road, Morecambe, LA3 1BE | 8 August 2025 | £210,000 |
| 79, Buckingham Road, Morecambe, LA3 1BE | 16 June 2022 | £225,000 |
| 75, Buckingham Road, Morecambe, LA3 1BE | 18 June 2021 | £69,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 288 m
Bay Leadership Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 504 m
West End Primary School
Community school
- 606 m
Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,685
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,399
- Anti social behaviour 605
- Criminal damage and arson 401
- Other theft 237
- Shoplifting 208
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 54
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- LA3 1 residents
- 8,305
26 female, 28 male
Age bands in LA3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
1,529 residents
886 residents
2,074 residents
2,259 residents
1,590 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA3 1 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
1
within 5 km
BAY MEDICAL GROUP
HEYSHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, MIDDLETON WAY, HEYSHAM, MORECAMBE, LA3 2LE
ODS code Y01008
2.5 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
- 0.1 miles
Heysham School
BCT · Sandylands
- 0.1 miles
Regent Park
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Regent Park
BCT · West End
- 0.2 miles
Regency Caravan Park
BCT · Westgate
- 0.2 miles
Park Hotel
BCT · West End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 008C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,233 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 6
- 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
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Bay Leadership Academy is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,685 published events cover 12 months, averaging 307.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,399 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.